Word Meanings - TROUGH-SHELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

Related words: (words related to TROUGH-SHELL)

• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• 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
• SHELLPROOF
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• SHELLBARK
  A species of hickory whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
• 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
• BIVALVE
  A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles
• SHELLED
  Having a shell.
• SHELLING
  Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.
• SHELLFISH
  Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• MACTRA
  Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf.
• BIVALVED
  Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
• SHELLWORK
  Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. Cotgrave.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• COCKLESHELL
  1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle. 2. A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.
• TURBAN-SHELL
  A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• GOUGESHELL
  A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.
• FIG-SHELL
  A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.