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CIDE DICTIONARY

ventriculite

CIDE DICTIONARY

ventriculiten. [See Ventriculus.].
     Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.  [1913 Webster]
    " Many of them were shaped like vases, others like mushrooms. They belong to the hexactinellids, and are allied to the Venus's basket of modern seas."  [1913 Webster]

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