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Ancylus

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Noun1.AncylusAncylus - type genus of the family Ancylidae: river limpet
genus Ancylus
mollusk genus - a genus of mollusks
Ancylidae, family Ancylidae - freshwater gastropod
Ancylus fluviatilis, freshwater limpet, river limpet - minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants


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Sir Charles Lyell also informs me that a Dyticus has been caught with an Ancylus (a fresh-water shell like a limpet) firmly adhering to it; and a water-beetle of the same family, a Colymbetes, once flew on board the 'Beagle,' when forty-five miles distant from the nearest land: how much farther it might have flown with a favouring gale no one can tell.
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