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US
/ˈkɑntʃ, ˈkɑŋk/
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[ UK /kˈɒntʃ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒntʃ/ ]
NOUN
- any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
How To Use conch In A Sentence
- Immediately above this is a well-marked horizontal ridge, the conchal crest, for articulation with the inferior nasal concha; still higher is a second broad, shallow depression, which forms part of the middle meatus, and is limited above by a horizontal crest less prominent than the inferior, the ethmoidal crest, for articulation with the middle nasal concha. II. Osteology. 5b. 5. The Palatine Bone
- The operculum illustrated by Reed does not match in outline the conch, and is here considered to be a different taxon.
- A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample -- not a small gasteropod! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
- I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
- The white flakes do not exhibit the true conchoidal fracture in such perfection elsewhere; nor break off in such delicious morsels, edged with delicate brown. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
- All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
- Yotam Ottolenghi's conchiglie with saffron, capers and raisins recipe WN.com - Articles related to Organic Bistro delivers fresh homemade meals
- One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
- He registered as a conscientious objector and was summoned appear before the tribunal set up to judge the sincerity of 'conchies'. Between silk and cyanide
- I love thee to the depth and breadth and height of thy conchiglie and farfalle.