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

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

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..

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament..

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

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

Solenoconcha :: Solenoconcha (n. pl.) Same as Scaphopoda.

Concha :: Concha (n.) The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

Conchyliologist :: Conchyliologist (n.) Alt. of Conchyliolog.

Conchiferous :: Conchiferous (a.) Producing or having shells.

Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..

Sconcheon :: Sconcheon (n.) A squinch.

Prosiphon :: Prosiphon (n.) A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon..

Conchinine :: Conchinine (n.) See Quinidine.

Conchology :: Conchology (n.) The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology..

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..

Conchylious :: Conchylious (a.) Conchylaceous.

Conch :: Conch (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo..

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

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

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