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Dodman :: Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod..

Concave :: Concave (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky..

Whelky :: Whelky (a.) Shelly.

Sankha :: Sankha (n.) A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell..

Galea :: Galea (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell..

Shell :: Shell (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk..

Auricula :: Auricula (n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..

Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..

Wing-shell :: Wing-shell (n.) Any pteropod shell.

Maclurea :: Maclurea (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks..

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..

Chiton :: Chiton (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

Miliolite :: Miliolite (n.) A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola..

Pteroceras :: Pteroceras (n.) A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

Shellac :: Shellac (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.

Seashell :: Seashell (n.) The shell of any marine mollusk.

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

Crustaceous :: Crustaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell..

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