Peristome is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 664 anagrams from letters in peristome (eeimoprst).
From the New Latin word peristoma, dating back to 1790-1800. See peri-, -stome
peristome constricted, with six divergent cylindrical, irregularly curved feet, twice to three times as long as the shell.
Margin of the peristome with four divergent, short, triangular teeth, the two dorsal teeth half as long as the two ventral.
peristome strongly constricted, one-third as broad as the shell, with nine large ovate lamellar, slightly convergent feet.
Outer coronal of the peristome with twelve to fifteen short, divergent feet, inner with as many convergent, longer feet.
peristome with a single simple tooth, which is crescent-shaped, curved over the mouth, and about half as long as the shell.
peristome small, constricted, scarcely one-fourth as broad as the shell, with twelve to fifteen short triangular vertical feet.
From the peristome descend five stout conical feet, which are slightly curved and divergent, nearly as long as the shell.
peristome with a coronet of fifteen to twenty parallel and vertical triangular lamellar feet, nearly as long as the thorax.
peristome constricted, half as broad as the abdomen, with a corona of nine conical, vertical feet as long as the cephalis.
The peristome bears a double marginal ring of divergent conical spines, the upper being directed upwards, the lower downwards.