Akademik

Placuna

noun

windowpane oysters

• Syn: ↑genus Placuna

• Hypernyms: ↑mollusk genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bivalvia, ↑class Bivalvia, ↑Lamellibranchia, ↑class Lamellibranchia, ↑class Pelecypoda

• Member Meronyms: ↑window oyster, ↑windowpane oyster, ↑capiz, ↑Placuna placenta

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\\plaˈkyünə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek plak-, plax flat surface

: a genus of large flattened tropical bivalve mollusks (order Filibranchia) with extremely thin nearly transparent shells that is related to Anomia but sometimes made the type of a separate family — see windowpane oyster

Useful english dictionary. 2012.