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What does testaceous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to earthenware or baked clay.
  2. Of a reddish-yellow or brownish colour, like brick.
  3. Having a shell, especially one which is not articulated.
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The testaceous, or shell-bearing, amoebas possess either lobopodia or filopodia, and the often economically important foraminiferans bear reticulopodia.
The mouth and gullet is admirably adapted for securing the testaceous mollusks and other substances on which they feed.
They are sometimes naked, and sometimes enclosed in a shell, whence they are known as testaceous Molluscs.
The specimen before me has the same part of a dull testaceous color, being not at all conspicuous and in feeble contrast with the black ground color.
The nature also of the ground has an important influence on the testaceous fauna, both on the land and beneath the waters.
Coleoptera Leptinidae Leptinus testaceous Coleoptera Leptodiridae Namadus sp.

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