porcelaine cervine

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French

une porcelaine cervine vivante.
Coquille de porcelaine cervine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔʁ.sə.lɛn sɛʁ.vin/

Noun

porcelaine cervine f (plural porcelaines cervines)

  1. (archaic) the Atlantic deer cowry (Macrocypraea cervus)

Further reading

  • Louis-Charles Kiener, Paul Fischer, Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs: Familles des enroulées, 1850, plate 2
  • Macrocypraea cervus at World Register of Marine Species