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English
Etymology
From Latin testāceus (“covered with a shell”).
Noun
testacea pl (plural only)
- (biology, obsolete) Any of various shellfish, especially those of the obsolete orders Vermes or Acephala, or the suborder Thecosomata.
1722, John Jones (tr.), Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 231:ANAIMONA, Aquatilia Exanguia, Bloodless Fishes, are divided into Mollia Soft Fishes without Shells; Crustata, those that are covered with thin pliant Shells; and Testacea, those which have thick, hard brittle Shells.
1829, Andrew Ure, A New System of Geology, page 285:The echinite family […] may be deemed characteristic of the chalk formation, affording of itself as many shells as the other testacea do.
1832, Charles Lyell, chapter I, in Principles of Geology , volume II, London: John Murray, page 11:[…] to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.
Noun
testacea (uncountable)
- (rare, obsolete) A testaceous substance, something made of shell or shell-like material.
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Italian
Adjective
testacea
- feminine singular of testaceo
Latin
Adjective
testācea
- inflection of testāceus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
testāceā
- ablative feminine singular of testāceus