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Definition of conch in English: conchnounPlural conchs, Plural conches kɒn(t)ʃkɒŋk 1A tropical marine mollusc with a robust spiral shell which may bear long projections and have a flared lip. Strombus and other genera, family Strombidae, class Gastropoda Example sentencesExamples - Her other hand points at a painting within the painting of a mermaid sounding a conch shell, indicating her affinity with the legless, mythological creature.
- Wrapping around them like spirals on a conch shell, everyone who had Power left formed themselves into a chain, one hand being placed on another's shoulder.
- The surface of the conch seems to possess a layer of intensively weathered shell, and no feature that could be reasonably interpreted as growth lines is present.
- At American Fine Arts, the Rapid logo, a five-color spiral based on a conch shell, graced a Plexiglas and vinyl sculpture of a gas pump emitting a fluorescent glow.
- The elf clutched the small conch shell in one hand and whispered a thank you to her friend.
- These are strong arguments for an adaptive origin of coiling in the cephalopod conch.
- Raup analyzed different types of mollusk conchs in terms of their geometrical properties.
- ‘And the best bait for conch was horseshoe crab,’ Niles, the New Jersey biologist, said.
- The operculum illustrated by Reed does not match in outline the conch, and is here considered to be a different taxon.
- Earlier this month, additional protection was given under this convention to the queen conch mollusk, a popular food item famous for its enormous pink shell.
- Compared with the hugely elongate shell, the living chamber and the animal were relatively tiny, but the conch had perfect hydrostatic balance, and was essentially weightless as far as floatation went.
- In addition, the apertural region of the conch is depicted as flaring outward, but any such flaring on the specimen itself is subtle at best.
- Then she anchored herself to the bed, one foot locked over the edge, the other thrust between their two mattresses and wrapped the sheet around them like the spirals of a conch shell.
- All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
- Shiva was depicted as a Himalayan ascetic, Vishnu as a blue youth holding in his four hands a discus, mace, conch, and lotus.
- If available, the dimension of the adult conch, the ornamentation of shell, and the position of the siphuncle of coiled nautiloids were compiled from the literature.
- I wonder if they can do anything to control the poachers though, as the conch is a marine dweller.
- The conch shell in Botticelli's picture, always traditionally associated with Venus, comes from such a creature, one which respires by means of a copper-process.
- Seilacher has shown such a function for orthocone cephalopod conchs in the same formation.
- Try the peppered scallops, shrimp, conch and ‘whole fish dishes in Hong Kong style.’
- 1.1 A conch shell blown like a trumpet to produce a hollow-sounding musical note, often depicted as played by Tritons.
Example sentencesExamples - The sound of the conch and things like that were very moving.
- Soothingly transitory, the track's Beatlesesque ‘Doo Doos’ are embedded in a piano that's bounced around the hollow of an aluminum conch.
- Women from the Fiji Islands will launch their March activities by playing drums and conch shells (huge seashells) and dancing;
- Revellers began arriving hours before the games with drums, conch horns and trumpets in hand to make this the best party in town.
- Trumpets, conches, oboes and drums beat out a rhythm while a huge contingent of Kandyan dancers and drummers perform, their stunning period costumes adding a blaze of colour to the spectacle.
- With mighty sounds of drums, horns and conch, Swamiji was invited to take the seat of the Holy Guruji.
- She is matched in her determination by most of the other tourists, who scuttle about like termites, obstructing the monks as they circle the arena in their ritual costumes, to the sound of conch trumpets and drums.
- Mizhavu and Edakka and conch (musical instruments) provide the background music to Koodiyattam and necessary sound modulations in scenes.
- As the last went down a conch blew a deep note and two priests stepped forward and closed the doors of the shrine.
- I withdrew my conch, a gorgeous Triton's Trumpet, and blew into it from deep in my belly as hard as I could, just as Ralph had done to summon his fellow castaways.
- I'm jolted awake the next morning by the trumpeting of a conch shell.
- Welcomed by the sounding of a conch horn, the boat pulls up on the beach which Jimmy explains was a shipment point for sugar and other produce from the estates taking up the bulk of the valley - now collectively called Union Vale Estate.
2Architecture
The roof of a semicircular apse, shaped like half a dome. Example sentencesExamples - This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents.
- The main walls of the interior are mostly built of hewn stone, the apse stones are better and the conch stones are very well-hewn.
- This example of classic tetra conch design with all its miniature size, strikes the viewers with its grandeur and integrity.
3 another term for concha Example sentencesExamples - Furthermore, the conch of the specimen is more compressed and the umbilicus smaller in diameter than those of the genus Properrinites Elias, 1938.
- The development of a coiled conch by only stochastic variation, or as a result of structural constraints alone, is considered highly improbable.
- Inner conch piercing looks very similar to lobe piercing, but it is placed on the inner conch and surrounds the lower outer helix.
- Because of the lack of the external conch the octopods swam swiftly, and successfully coped with the upper Cretaceous marine predators.
- Thus the backward expanding marginal folds of the septa provide circumferential anchorage sites that firmly hold the body to the buoyant conch in addition to the few, small adductor muscles.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin concha 'shellfish, shell', from Greek konkhē 'mussel, cockle, or shell-like cavity'. conker from mid 18th century: Children originally played conkers not with horse chestnuts but with snail shells. The word conker is first recorded in the 1840s as a dialect word for a snail shell, and may have originally come from conch (Middle English), a kind of mollusc, which is probably also the origin of conk (early 19th century), meaning ‘the nose’. On the other hand, conker could be related to conquer (ME, from Latin conquirere ‘gain, win’), which was how conker was often spelled. Indeed, an alternative name for the game at one time was conquerors. Horse chestnuts seem to have replaced snail shells late in the 19th century.
Definition of conch in US English: conchnoun 1A tropical marine mollusk with a spiral shell that may bear long projections and have a flared lip. Strombus and other genera, family Strombidae, class Gastropoda Example sentencesExamples - At American Fine Arts, the Rapid logo, a five-color spiral based on a conch shell, graced a Plexiglas and vinyl sculpture of a gas pump emitting a fluorescent glow.
- ‘And the best bait for conch was horseshoe crab,’ Niles, the New Jersey biologist, said.
- Compared with the hugely elongate shell, the living chamber and the animal were relatively tiny, but the conch had perfect hydrostatic balance, and was essentially weightless as far as floatation went.
- All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
- If available, the dimension of the adult conch, the ornamentation of shell, and the position of the siphuncle of coiled nautiloids were compiled from the literature.
- Shiva was depicted as a Himalayan ascetic, Vishnu as a blue youth holding in his four hands a discus, mace, conch, and lotus.
- Wrapping around them like spirals on a conch shell, everyone who had Power left formed themselves into a chain, one hand being placed on another's shoulder.
- The surface of the conch seems to possess a layer of intensively weathered shell, and no feature that could be reasonably interpreted as growth lines is present.
- The elf clutched the small conch shell in one hand and whispered a thank you to her friend.
- Seilacher has shown such a function for orthocone cephalopod conchs in the same formation.
- Then she anchored herself to the bed, one foot locked over the edge, the other thrust between their two mattresses and wrapped the sheet around them like the spirals of a conch shell.
- Earlier this month, additional protection was given under this convention to the queen conch mollusk, a popular food item famous for its enormous pink shell.
- In addition, the apertural region of the conch is depicted as flaring outward, but any such flaring on the specimen itself is subtle at best.
- These are strong arguments for an adaptive origin of coiling in the cephalopod conch.
- The operculum illustrated by Reed does not match in outline the conch, and is here considered to be a different taxon.
- Try the peppered scallops, shrimp, conch and ‘whole fish dishes in Hong Kong style.’
- Raup analyzed different types of mollusk conchs in terms of their geometrical properties.
- I wonder if they can do anything to control the poachers though, as the conch is a marine dweller.
- The conch shell in Botticelli's picture, always traditionally associated with Venus, comes from such a creature, one which respires by means of a copper-process.
- Her other hand points at a painting within the painting of a mermaid sounding a conch shell, indicating her affinity with the legless, mythological creature.
- 1.1 A conch shell blown like a trumpet to produce a musical note, often depicted as played by Tritons and other mythological figures.
Example sentencesExamples - The sound of the conch and things like that were very moving.
- Revellers began arriving hours before the games with drums, conch horns and trumpets in hand to make this the best party in town.
- With mighty sounds of drums, horns and conch, Swamiji was invited to take the seat of the Holy Guruji.
- Trumpets, conches, oboes and drums beat out a rhythm while a huge contingent of Kandyan dancers and drummers perform, their stunning period costumes adding a blaze of colour to the spectacle.
- Welcomed by the sounding of a conch horn, the boat pulls up on the beach which Jimmy explains was a shipment point for sugar and other produce from the estates taking up the bulk of the valley - now collectively called Union Vale Estate.
- As the last went down a conch blew a deep note and two priests stepped forward and closed the doors of the shrine.
- Soothingly transitory, the track's Beatlesesque ‘Doo Doos’ are embedded in a piano that's bounced around the hollow of an aluminum conch.
- She is matched in her determination by most of the other tourists, who scuttle about like termites, obstructing the monks as they circle the arena in their ritual costumes, to the sound of conch trumpets and drums.
- Mizhavu and Edakka and conch (musical instruments) provide the background music to Koodiyattam and necessary sound modulations in scenes.
- I'm jolted awake the next morning by the trumpeting of a conch shell.
- I withdrew my conch, a gorgeous Triton's Trumpet, and blew into it from deep in my belly as hard as I could, just as Ralph had done to summon his fellow castaways.
- Women from the Fiji Islands will launch their March activities by playing drums and conch shells (huge seashells) and dancing;
2Architecture
The roof of a semicircular apse, shaped like half a dome. Example sentencesExamples - This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents.
- This example of classic tetra conch design with all its miniature size, strikes the viewers with its grandeur and integrity.
- The main walls of the interior are mostly built of hewn stone, the apse stones are better and the conch stones are very well-hewn.
3 another term for concha Example sentencesExamples - Inner conch piercing looks very similar to lobe piercing, but it is placed on the inner conch and surrounds the lower outer helix.
- Because of the lack of the external conch the octopods swam swiftly, and successfully coped with the upper Cretaceous marine predators.
- Furthermore, the conch of the specimen is more compressed and the umbilicus smaller in diameter than those of the genus Properrinites Elias, 1938.
- The development of a coiled conch by only stochastic variation, or as a result of structural constraints alone, is considered highly improbable.
- Thus the backward expanding marginal folds of the septa provide circumferential anchorage sites that firmly hold the body to the buoyant conch in addition to the few, small adductor muscles.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin concha ‘shellfish, shell’, from Greek konkhē ‘mussel, cockle, or shell-like cavity’. |