Word Meanings - CONCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Note: The conch

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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. Note: The conch is sometimes used as a horn or trumpet, as in fogs at sea, or to call laborers from work. 2. In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet. 3. 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.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CONCHOID
  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.
• 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
• CONCH
  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. Note: The conch
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• 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.
• CONCHO-SPIRAL
  A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• CONCHITIC
  Composed of shells; containing many shells.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• 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.
• CAMEO
  A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like. Note: Most cameos are carved in a material which has layers of different colors, such stones as the onyx and sardonyx, and various kinds of shells, being
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• CONCHIFER
  One of the Conchifera.
• CONCHOMETRY
  The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.
• CONCHOLOGY
  The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• 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.