testaceous

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testaceous englannista suomeksi

Pertaining to earthenware or baked clay.
(RQ:Browne Hydriotaphia)
Having a shell, especially one which is not articulated.
(RQ:Hooke Micrographia)
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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne, and J. Shipton,(nb...)|year=1756|section=part II, book III, class I, section II, order IV|page=395|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lw5UAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA395|oclc=1264747218|passage=The Ship-VVorm of ''Jamaica''. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of ''Jamaica'', or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance(nb..).
Of a dull orange or brownish colour, like brick.