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Crag :: Crag (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age..

Testacea :: Testacea (n. pl.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish..

Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..

Tongue-shell :: Tongue-shell (n.) Any species of Lingula.

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

Calabash :: Calabash (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd..

Tun :: Tun (n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.

Gryphaea :: Gryphaea (n.) A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

Crustacea :: Crustacea (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered..

Escaloped :: Escaloped (a.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales..

Panhellenism :: Panhellenism (n.) A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

Finfish :: Finfish (n.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish..

Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building..

Schelly :: Schelly (n.) The powan.

Dauw :: Dauw (n.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil..

Tubivalve :: Tubivalve (n.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below..

Exuviation :: Exuviation (n.) The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis..

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