PLAIT

Plait

A plait is an anatomical feature which is present the shells of some snails, or gastropods. This sculpture occurs often in the shells of marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda, but it is also found in some pulmonate land snails.

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plait

Noun

  1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
    a box plait
  2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.

Verb

  1. To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
  2. To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.


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