PINNA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 25

(Lat. pinna, a Jin.) The name of a genus of Ostracean Acephalous Mollusks, commonly called " wing shells," remarkable for the size of the by us, by which they adhere to rocks, and which the natives of Sicily manufacture in to gloves, socks, and other articles of sale. [s. 949]