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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 slit-shell n. Zool. Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip.  Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.