line conch
English
Noun
line conch (plural line conches)
- A spiral marine shell (Fasciolaria distans), of Florida and the West Indies, marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for line conch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)