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Frogshell :: Frogshell (n.) One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera..

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

Cockleshell :: Cockleshell (n.) One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

Interdome :: Interdome (n.) The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.

Nacre :: Nacre (n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl..

Septate :: Septate (a.) Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell..

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca..

String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..

Cockled :: Cockled (a.) Inclosed in a shell.

Scutibranchiata :: Scutibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of gastropod Mollusca having a heart with two auricles and one ventricle. The shell may be either spiral or shieldlike.

Marine :: Marine (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine..

Pouch-shell :: Pouch-shell (n.) A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

Bitternut :: Bitternut (n.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Rice-shell :: Rice-shell (n.) Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.

Shell :: Shell (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering..

Lamella :: Lamella (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed..

Shuck :: Shuck (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

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