Conch. Also -ped. [ad. L. lōripēd-, lōripēs, lit. ‘strap-footed,’ f. lōrum strap + pēs foot.]
The L. word meant fig. a person of little endurance or resolve; so used (in pl. loripedes) by Jer. Taylor, Gold. Grove, Serm. Winter xiii. 165.
A bivalve mollusk of the group Conchifera, now included in the genus Lucina; esp. L. lactea.
1837. Partington’s Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist., III. 62. Loripede, a genus of molluscs.
1864. Craig, Suppl., Loriped, a molluscan animal, having the foot prolonged into a kind of cylindrical cord.
