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Carinaria :: Carinaria (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills..

Picking :: Picking (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.

Bombproof :: Bombproof (n.) A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.

Trivalve :: Trivalve (n.) Anything having three valves, especially a shell..

Bulla :: Bulla (n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

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..

Inoperculate :: Inoperculate (a.) Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

Fuze :: Fuze (n.) A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n..

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

Cannonade :: Cannonade (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance..

Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

Turnip-shell :: Turnip-shell (n.) Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped..

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

Lorica :: Lorica (n.) The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.

Enucleate :: Enucleate (v. t.) To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell..

Buckie :: Buckie (n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum..

Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster..

Arming :: Arming (n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom..

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

Betel :: Betel (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves..

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