Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of shell is as below...

Labrum :: Labrum (n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.

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

Frill :: Frill (v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.

Trochoid :: Trochoid (a.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.

Turbinella :: Turbinella (n.) A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

Univalve :: Univalve (n.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs..

Catenulate :: Catenulate (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc..

Shelling :: Shelling (n.) Groats; hulled oats.

Scallop :: Scallop (v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2..

Helicoid :: Helicoid (a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell..

Sloughing :: Sloughing (n.) The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis..

Vasum :: Vasum (n.) A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella..

Sepiostare :: Sepiostare (n.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

Tortoise :: Tortoise (n.) a tortoise-shell cat.

Anaptychus :: Anaptychus (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites..

Cardo :: Cardo (n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

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

Reversed :: Reversed (a.) Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell..

Bream :: Bream (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping..

Wedge-shell :: Wedge-shell (n.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.

Random Fonts

Most Popular