expansively-mouthed

Updated: May 20, 2025

In time, should it survive all the accidents and assaults to which on entering the world it is beset, the tiny shell will develop into an expansively-mouthed vessel. The next succeeding row will be in a less matured state, and so the development diminishes towards the apex.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber