NOUN
- a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum
How To Use nerita In A Sentence
- In calm weather, then, they go free afield, but when the wind blows the carcinia take shelter against the rocks: the neritae themselves cling fast like limpets; and the same is the case with the haemorrhoid or aporrhaid and all others of the like kind. The History of Animals