The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strombus \Strom"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Usage examples of "conch shells".
Some of her larger scenes were based on abalone shells, or conch shells sawed open.
The run-boat was loading live crawfish and conches and a deck load of conch shells and empty gasoline and Diesel oil drums and the islanders stood in line in the heavy wind waiting their turn in the cabin.
She kicked at a pile of conch shells and sent them clattering down.
And there, abruptly revealing his perfidy, he robbed her of her jewelry and fine shawl and sold her to the natives for a basket full of pretty conch shells.
Every arched wall was festooned with fishing nets, buoys, giant mounted marlin and sailfish, conch shells, shark jaws, and endless strings of Christmas lights.
The living room was a hodgepodge of junkyard furniture: a couch and overstuffed chair in ugly shades of pink and green, several mismatched lamps fashioned from odd things like conch shells and coral, and a coffee table constructed from what appeared to have been an oak door in a former life.
The bar decor was fish nets, great sea fans painted white and gone a little gray, green glass-bubble net floats, dusty conch shells, and bleached coral.
Instead, they decided to focus their empathic sense and broadcast it outwards through conch shells.
He tossed wine bottles, flaming tiki torches, conch shells, cactus plants and even live animals.
To their left the priests, their conch shells beneath their arms, were congregating for the evening service.
When I ask for something that would make a tremendous noise, they produce conch shells for the watchers to blow.
It was just as Bond remembered-the sugar-loaf of the Isle of Surprise rising out of the calm bay, the canoes drawn up beside the mounds of empty conch shells, the distant boom of the surf on the reef which had so nearly been his grave.
Under them, the grey canoes were pulled up beside pink mounds of discarded conch shells, and among them smoke rose from the palm thatch cabins of the fishermen in the shade between the swamp-lands and the sea.