An Illustrated and Cross-Referenced Glossary of Malacological and Conchological Terms

by Paul S. Mikkelsen

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ORTHOCLINE		Perpendicular to HINGE AXIS or almost so [term applied to HINGE TEETH and, in some genera, to body of shell]; = ACLINE.

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