Dentalium

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  • noun. Any of various tusk shells of the genus Dentalium, some of which are used for ornament and were used by native peoples of western North America as currency.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The typical and leading genus of the family Dentaliidæ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium
    • Word Usage
    "Bea, our bone specialist, had the final say, identifying one of the three pieces as being possibly of dentalium, from the weird and wonderful world of molluscs."
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