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conchs

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.

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conchs

n. (plural of conch English)

Usage examples of "conchs".

Next to her was a canvas bag, a pile of bleached conchs, and some woebegone starfish.

Huge Barnett and the other Conchs had plenty to say at first, but over the years, Barnett had shut up about the gays.

It took fully two hours to collect thirty suitable conchs, and four of those might cause a lifting of Mr.

Tate should have no trouble convincing tourists that the conchs would make excellent doorstops, paperweights, or instruments through which children and guests could listen to the surging drum of distant ocean waves upon the beach.

By the time Steve had located two sufficiently large conchs, Doris, Karl, and Ted Raymond had transferred the forty-four shells to the beach, and had stood them up with spiral end toward the sun.

Steve stood his two conchs up beside the others, washed his hands in the salt water, and joined the trio at the boat.

They stopped by the dinghy long enough to stand the dozen conchs they had managed to collect upright in the sand.

The tide was particularly low, enabling Steve and Karl to locate the conchs quite easily.

Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared.

Outside, the gongs and conchs brayed and thundered and the priests gashed themselves with copper knives.

Outside, the moan of the tortured thousands shuddered up to the stars which crusted the sweating Vendhyan night, and the conchs bellowed like oxen in pain.