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Etymology
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Particularly: “based on genus name; ? from Latin "partus" = "born" or "produced"; presumably coined by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, 1821”
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Noun
partula (plural partulas)
- Any of the Polynesian tree snails of the genus Partula, family Partulidae.