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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nerite /ˈnɪərʌɪt/

▶noun a mollusc with a globe-shaped and brightly marked shell, chiefly tropical and aquatic. [Theodoxus fluviatilis and other species.]

– origin C18: from L. nerita, from Gk nēritēs ‘sea mussel’, from the sea god Nereus.

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