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Unio

noun
1.
Type genus of the family Unionidae.  Synonym: genus Unio.



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"Unio" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth. I had the previous winter made a small quantity of lime by burning the shells of the Unio fluviatilis, which our river affords, for the sake of the experiment; so that I knew where my materials came from. I might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it myself, if I had cared to ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau



Words linked to "Unio" :   genus Unio, family Unionidae, pearly-shelled mussel, mollusk genus



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