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shell-like

a. Having a similar shape to a seashell n. (context slang British English) The ear, particularly in set phrases.

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Further they are skilled with primitive weapons and have constructed an aesthetically spectacular village that clings to the cliffsides of a gorge, protected from the elements by shell-like canopies.

When the pupil interprets the object as six-legged, with hard shell-like wing covers, under wings membranous, etc.

As the images failed to arrive from the Avernus, as the mere pictures died in the shell-like auditoria, so the empathic link was forged ever more strongly.

Thus he came to her mind's eye, shining in the steel field-armor of the era, with its slender, elegant lines and cusped borders and shell-like rippling, damascening glinting on the lames.

The bottom contained a veritable jungle of aquatic plant life, including lacy palaces of some shell-like substance that glowed with rainbows of color.

Your odor offends me and my shell-like ear gapeth to hear thy screams of pain.