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Columbella

a genus of mollusks, of the family Buccinidæ; small, prettily Romans to receive the ashes of bodies which had been burned. COLUMBELLA, a genus of mollusks, ture, a thickened and dentated outer lip, a crenulated inner one, a small lamellar operculum. Recent species known 205, fossil 8. The former are from the subtropical and tropical parts of the old and new worlds; the latter from the Tertiary, It is on the

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