turritella
noun
tur·ri·tel·la
ˌtərəˈtelə
1
capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Turritellidae) of marine gastropod mollusks having an elongated turreted shell composed of many whorls with a rounded aperture and a horny multispiral operculum
2
or less commonly turritellid plural -s : any mollusk or shell of the genus Turritella or family Turritellidae see screw shell
-lə̇d
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from Latin turris + New Latin -ella