Crossword clues for seashell
seashell
- Scallop, for one
- Beach memento
- The shell of a marine organism
- Beach souvenir
- Container for a fish canapé
- Conch, e.g.
- Marine mammal, without female, left home for snail
- What mollusc inhabits ocean’s lower regions?
- Reportedly receives severe censure when it's found on the beach
- Home for hermit in Home Counties — like Hades
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seashell \Sea"shell`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The shell of any marine mollusk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashell. n. 1 the empty shell of a marine mollusk 2 A very light pink colour, like that of some seashell.
WordNet
n. the shell of a marine organism
Wikipedia
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea. The shell is part of the body of the animal. Empty seashells are often found washed up on beaches by beachcombers. The shells are empty because the animal has died and the soft parts have been eaten by another animal or have rotted out.
The term seashell usually refers to the exoskeleton of an invertebrate (an animal without a backbone). Most shells that are found on beaches are the shells of marine mollusks, partly because many of these shells endure better than other seashells.
Apart from mollusk shells, other shells that can be found on beaches are those of barnacles, horseshoe crabs and brachiopods. Marine annelid worms in the family Serpulidae create shells which are tubes made of calcium carbonate that are cemented onto other surfaces. The shells of sea urchins are called tests, and the moulted shells of crabs and lobsters are called exuviae. While most seashells are external, some cephalopods have internal shells.
Seashells have been used by humans for many different purposes throughout history and pre-history. However, seashells are not the only kind of shells; in various habitats, there are shells from freshwater animals such as freshwater mussels and freshwater snails, and shells of land snails.
Usage examples of "seashell".
Like all inanimate objects everywhere, the three displaced articles from the Airstream turkey knew instinctively what the seashell was talking about.
Other unmistakable paraphernalia sat on tables and shelves: a large white and pink seashell, a slender glass vase holding one long stemmed red rose, an intricately carved wooden box, and a collection of small jadestone figurines.
The rain had stopped, and as Nicholas dismounted his Kawasaki, sunlight, pink as the inside of a seashell, streamed through a break in the clouds.
He and the great seashell came to look more and more like each other by the day.
The crab poked its head out of its seashell, looked at Jonathan, then pinched him on the finger.
The four bodies were adorned in bone fetishes, claws, the canines of beasts, and polished seashells.
The room was at least two hundred meters long, half that high, and filled with bars of gold, heaps of coins, chests of precious stones, small mountains of polished bronze artifacts, marble statues of gods and men, great seashells spilling pearls onto the polished floor, dismantled gold chariots, glass columns filled with lapis lazuli, and a hundred other treasures, all gleaming from the reflected light from flames flickering in a score of gold fire tripods.
On the platform was a couchlike bed of carved wood inlaid with seashells.
In some of the baskets and hanging from pegs were carved ivory armbands and bracelets, and necklaces of animal teeth, freshwater mollusc shells, seashells, cylindrical lime tubes, natural and colored ivory beads and pendants, and prominent among them, amber.
This was a parlor: overstuffed plush chairs, faded rug with pink roses, a million little tables densely covered with picture frames and wooden boxes and seashells and candleholders and dried flowers in small vases the dim colors of Victorian gentility.
Her eyes moved rapidly behind lids as delicately colored as seashells.
From hot-air balloons above the square, orchestras of children blowing on giant seashells played enthusiastic, strident antiphonies.
Blue Hawaiian shirt, white capris, white sandals, cheap tourist seashell jewelry.
And then the nobles return to their own levels, the upper levels, and pay homage to the Snow Queen, who sees everything and knows everything, who controls the currents of influence and power that move like water through the seashell convolutions of the city.
He gave me a seashell, pale, white, gleaming with opalescence like a daintier, pinker version of abalone shell.