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Definition of conch

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Conch (n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food..

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Sconcheon :: Sconcheon (n.) A squinch.

Conchometry :: Conchometry (n.) The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

Conch :: Conch (n.) See Concha, n..

Conchitic :: Conchitic (a.) Composed of shells; containing many shells.

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

Dioecia :: Dioecia (n. pl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries..

Conchite :: Conchite (n.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

Conchal :: Conchal (a.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage..

Conchylious :: Conchylious (a.) Conchylaceous.

Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture..

Antitragus :: Antitragus (n.) A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear..

Prosiphon :: Prosiphon (n.) A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon..

Concho-spiral :: Concho-spiral (n.) A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.

Solenoconcha :: Solenoconcha (n. pl.) Same as Scaphopoda.

Conch :: Conch (n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2..

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

Protoconch :: Protoconch (n.) The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods..

Conchyliologist :: Conchyliologist (n.) Alt. of Conchyliolog.

Scaphopda :: Scaphopda (n. pl.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha..

Conchoidal :: Conchoidal (a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.