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loripede Conch.|ˈlɒrɪpiːd| Also -ped. [ad. L. lōriped-, lōripēs, lit. ‘strap-footed’, f. lōrum strap + pēs foot. The L. word meant fig. a person of little endurance or resolve; so used (in pl. loripedes) by Jer. Taylor Gold. Grove Serm. Winter xiii. 165.] A bivalve mollusc of the group Conchifera, now included in the genus Lucina; esp. L. lactea.
1837Partington's Brit. Cycl., Nat. Hist. III. 62 Loripede, a genus of molluscs. 1864Craig Suppl., Loriped, a molluscan animal, having the foot prolonged into a kind of cylindrical cord. |