Sentences with phrase «of ovate»

Not exact matches

(My use of the expressions «shape,» circular,» «ovate,» «concentric, «big,» and «small» are intended solely as conceptual aids.

Shell small, elongate, pellucid white, exhibiting the red dried remains of the animal, smooth, glossy, rather blunt at the apex; whorls 8, a little convex, slowly and regularly increasing, narrowly marginate beneath the slightly oblique suture; aperture ovate, acuminate above; peristome whitish, the outer margin curved forward in the middle, somewhat sinuated above and at the base; columellar margin thickened, reflexed, joined above to the outer lip by a thin callosity.