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Definition of tooth shell in English: tooth shellnoun another term for tusk shell Example sentencesExamples - Scaphopods are burrowing animals that are also called tusk or tooth shells.
- Wampum, used in North America, was usually fashioned from thick-shelled clams; dentalia, or tooth shells, were popular with the coastal Native Americans of W North America.
- They are also known as tooth shells and resemble an elephant's tusks.
- Even I, who entered not knowing an egg cockle from a dosinia, came out savvy of tooth shells and lightning whelks.
- Amphineura, containing the chitons, and Scaphopoda, represented by the elephant tooth shell, are two classes of less popular interest.
- The tusk or tooth shells, as they are more commonly known, have the simplest shell structure and anatomy of all the molluscs.
Definition of tooth shell in US English: tooth shellnounˈto͞oTH ˌSHel A burrowing mollusk with a slender tusk-shaped shell, which is open at both ends and typically white, and a three-lobed foot. Class Scaphopoda, in particular the genus Dentalium Also called tusk shell Example sentencesExamples - They are also known as tooth shells and resemble an elephant's tusks.
- Even I, who entered not knowing an egg cockle from a dosinia, came out savvy of tooth shells and lightning whelks.
- Wampum, used in North America, was usually fashioned from thick-shelled clams; dentalia, or tooth shells, were popular with the coastal Native Americans of W North America.
- Scaphopods are burrowing animals that are also called tusk or tooth shells.
- The tusk or tooth shells, as they are more commonly known, have the simplest shell structure and anatomy of all the molluscs.
- Amphineura, containing the chitons, and Scaphopoda, represented by the elephant tooth shell, are two classes of less popular interest.
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