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

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

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

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion..

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..

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..

Conchometer :: Conchometer (n.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire..

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

Conchifera :: Conchifera (n. pl.) That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

Conchiform :: Conchiform (a.) Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.

Stromeyerite :: Strombus (n.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch..

Conch :: 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..

Conchyliometry :: Conchyliometry (n.) Same as Conchometry.

Quinidine :: Quinidine (n.) An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge..

Conchyliaceous :: Conchyliaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions..

Conchylaceous :: Conchylaceous (a.) Alt. of Conchyliaceou.

Testaceology :: Testaceology (n.) The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology.

Concha :: Concha (n.) The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal..

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

Mollusca :: Mollusca (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or m

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