conchs in English
noun
1
a tropical marine mollusk with a spiral shell that may bear long projections and have a flared lip.
Raup analyzed different types of mollusk conchs in terms of their geometrical properties.
2
the roof of a semicircular apse, shaped like half a dome.
This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents.
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1. Methods exist for Anesthetizing various molluscs including conchs (Acosta-Salmon & Davis 2007), mussels (Lellis et al
2. As many of the local citizens were referred to as Conchs, the nation took the name of the Conch Republic.
3. Conchs (Robertson, 1963), Architectonicids still generally are classified as prosobranchs but as long ago as 1928 were transferred (without stated reasons) by Kuroda (1928, pp