a. Zool. [f. BUCCIN-UM + -OID.] Resembling the buccinum.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 127. Macrocheilus, shell thick, ventricose, buccinoid.
1875. Blake, Zool., 253. The genus … forms part of the buccinoid family of the pectini-branchiate order of Gasteropods.
