lirula

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English

Lunella cinerea's whorls are spirally lirate with lirulae in the interstices.

Etymology

From Latin lirula, from lira (“ridge of soil between furrows”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

lirula (plural lirulas or lirulae)

  1. A fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers.
  2. (malacology) A fine raised line on a mollusk shell.
    • 1903, Ralph Arnold, The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California, page 290:
      314. Seila assimilata C. B. Adams.
      Plate IV, Fig. 8
      Cerithiopsis assimilata C. B. Ad., […] Shell small, thin, turreted; nuclear whorls sinistral; whorls ten, ornamented with three prominent, sharp, equal, equidistant, raised spiral lines; interspaces between ridges crossed by numerous fine lirulas; suture indistinct; […]
  3. (zoology) A tooth in the opercula of some bryozoans.

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