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- English Word Conch Definition 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.
- English Word Conch Definition In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
- English Word Conch Definition 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.
- English Word Conch Definition See Concha, n.
- English Word Conch Definition The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
- English Word Concha Definition The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
- English Word Concha Definition The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.
- English Word Conchal Definition Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.
- English Word Conchifer Definition One of the Conchifera.
- English Word Conchifera Definition That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.
- English Word Conchiferous Definition Producing or having shells.
- English Word Conchiform Definition Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
- English Word Conchinine Definition See Quinidine.
- English Word Conchite Definition A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
- English Word Conchitic Definition Composed of shells; containing many shells.
- English Word Concho-spiral Definition A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.
- English Word Conchoid Definition A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
- English Word Conchoidal Definition Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
- English Word Conchological Definition Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.
- English Word Conchologist Definition One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
- English Word Conchology Definition The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
- English Word Conchometer Definition An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.
- English Word Conchometry Definition The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.
- English Word Conchylaceous Definition Alt. of Conchyliaceous
- English Word Conchyliaceous Definition Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions.
- English Word Conchyliologist Definition Alt. of Conchyliology
- English Word Conchyliology Definition See Conchologist, and Conchology.
- English Word Conchyliometry Definition Same as Conchometry.
- English Word Conchylious Definition Conchylaceous.
- English Word Conciator Definition The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.