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SEA CRADLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea cradle mean? 

SEA CRADLE (noun)
  The noun SEA CRADLE has 1 sense:

1. primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous platesplay

  Familiarity information: SEA CRADLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SEA CRADLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chiton; coat-of-mail shell; polyplacophore; sea cradle

Hypernyms ("sea cradle" is a kind of...):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

Holonyms ("sea cradle" is a member of...):

genus Chiton (a genus of Polyplacophora)


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