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Pichiciago :: Pichiciago (n.) A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back..

Conchometer :: Conchometer (n.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire..

Shrapnel :: Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

Cultch :: Cultch (n.) Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

Gyration :: Gyration (n.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

Nummulites :: Nummulites (n.) A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally..

Shell :: Shell (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell..

Testaceography :: Testaceography (n.) The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish..

Tentaculite :: Tentaculite (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods..

Bombard :: Bombard (v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into..

Valve :: Valve (n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.

Crush :: Crush (v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily..

Nodosarine :: Nodosarine (a.) Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria.

Faluns :: Faluns (n.) A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision..

Toothshell :: Toothshell (n.) Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium.

Multivalve :: Multivalve (n.) Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces.

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal..

Conch :: Conch (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet..

Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.

Thecosomata :: Thecosomata (n. pl.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda.

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