(n.) 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.
(n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
(n.) 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.
(n.) See Concha, n.
(n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maggie Kelly, from the residents campaign group Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston (CONCH), said: "The proposed power station would have a devastating impact on our community, damaging our health, our livelihoods and destroying the local environment.
(2) While their double-shelled relations (clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc) specialise in filtering water to remove food particles, and their single-shelled little cousins (periwinkles, whelks, limpets, conches) specialise in, well, adorning a seafood platter, cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish and squid) specialise in a seriously impressive form of self-defence.
(3) The site is on the edge of the island, by the lighthouse, and opens directly on to La Conche beach and a wild stretch of coast.
(4) Consumption of carrucho (conch) salad was significantly associated with illness (P = 0.013, Fisher's exact test).
(5) Kitsch beachcomber paintings adorn the walls; bartenders in Hawaiian shirts serve cocktails in conch shells.
(6) The morphology of human ear conch is said to be rather individual, but a perfect person-identification by this mean is not possible.
(7) Photopigments in the conch retina were examined with special attention given to the photic vesicles characteristic of gastropod photoreceptors.
(8) During an exposure the subjects with atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis showed a higher pressure in vessels of ear conch than the healthy subjects.
(9) It is demonstrated by photographs-made in a 15 years' interval-that ear conch and auricular area can be typically marked by proceeding age and specific diseases.
(10) In order to correct dislocation and hypertrophy of the conch, if present, a posterior retroauricular approach is employed.
(11) I would particularly recommend Akata Witch by Okorafor, a quest fantasy set in urban Nigeria, drawing on Igbo beliefs, and Divrakuni's The Conch Bearer and sequels, set in India.
(12) The conch is reduced as much as necessary, the ear brought closer to the mastoid and held in place with sutures knotted on oiled gauze inside the conch.
(13) The original source of contamination of the conch salad was not identified.
(14) Faces were made out of shells on the front of jackets and the back of dresses, so that the clothes came to life as they walked the catwalk, giant plastic eyelashes fluttering above conch-shell pupils.
Seashell
Definition:
(n.) The shell of any marine mollusk.
Example Sentences:
(1) A gravely ill patient had Vibrio alginolyticus conjunctivitis develop, possibly from contact with seashell fragments.
(2) But could beachgoers who pocketed seashells – or bought them at beach shops – really account for what Kowalewski found?
(3) To this end, he photographed seashells that had been collected by his lover, the photographer and revolutionary Tina Modotti, and transformed them, in her words, into something "mystical and erotic".
(4) Even though other factors might play a role in the shells' decline, it is hard not to think that human behaviour is to blame for the decline in seashells.
(5) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
(6) Low walls around the site are studded with blue milk of magnesia bottles in wave formations and more than 25,000 seashells.
(7) Seashells are an important part of coastal ecosystems: they provide materials for birds' nests, a home or attachment surface for algae, sea grass, sponges and a host of other microorganisms.
(8) You might think twice next time you snag a seashell from the beach and drop it into your pocket: you might be altering the seaside environment.
(9) Dimethylarsinic acid and methylarsonic acid were found in natural waters, bird eggshells, seashells, and human urine.
(10) Calcium retention of seashells treated with phosphoric acid, oyster shells, and limestone using two particle sizes, ground or particulate, was assayed in 98 broiler chicks.
(11) However calm his songs sound, they still roar like a car crash echoing in a seashell.
(12) The study focused on a stretch of coastline on Spain's north-eastern Mediterranean shore called Llarga Beach, where the researchers conducted monthly surveys of seashell abundance between 1978 and 1981.
(13) The notion of a subject, even one belonging to the natural world like a pepper or a seashell, being "completely outside subject matter" is intriguing.
(14) They found that the abundance of seashells had decreased by 60% while tourism had increased in the area by 300%.
(15) (A vintage print of one of his seashells, Nautilus, 1927, sold for $1,082,500 at Sotheby's New York in April.)
(16) In addition, the loss of seashells can't be attributed to fisheries, since the area hasn't seen any new commercial fisheries since the 1970s, the researchers found.
(17) The study focused on a stretch of coastline on Spain’s northeastern Mediterranean shore, where the researchers conducted monthly surveys of seashell abundance between 1978 and 1981.