Word Meanings - WING-SHELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell.

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• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• MARINE
  Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and
• AVICULARIA
  See BILL
• AVICULA
  A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
• STROMBUS
  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.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• GASTROPODA
  One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SHELL
  The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates,
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• HINGED
  Furnished with hinges.
• HINGELESS
  Without a hinge or joint.
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SHELLBARK
  A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• SHELLY
  Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.
• SHELLAC; SHELL-LAC
  See LAC
• GASTROPOD
  One of the Gastropoda.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• UNHINGE
  1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains,
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• UNSHELL
  To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• EGGSHELL
  A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. (more info) 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
• FROGSHELL
  One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.