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- noun Plural form of
conch .
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Examples
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“It’s really a shellfish, but people who live on the Keys are called conchs.”
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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“It’s really a shellfish, but people who live on the Keys are called conchs.”
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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“It’s really a shellfish, but people who live on the Keys are called conchs.”
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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“It’s really a shellfish, but people who live on the Keys are called conchs.”
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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Don't know how much to read into this but "conchs" and "conches" get roughly equal number of hits when restricted to English-language pages.
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They likewise cure considerable quantities of testaceous fishes, such as conchs, clams, and _piures_, in the following manner.
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The ambiance of the continental United States 'southernmost city -- which is situated closer to Cuba than Miami -- is embedded in its quaint, palm-studded streets, historic hundred-year-old gingerbread mansions and a relaxed citizenry of self-styled "conchs" (pronounced konks).
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From the heights above, where were evidently other villages, came the booming of drums and a wild blowing of war-conchs; but Sheldon had dared all he cared to with his small following.
Chapter 25 2010
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On this first visit, José María was working on some tapas - lids for clay jars that would go on clay lampshades fashioned into the shapes of stylized caracoles - conch shells - with rows of three tiny teeth swirling around them like the twisting figures of conchs.
Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan 2008
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On this first visit, José María was working on some tapas - lids for clay jars that would go on clay lampshades fashioned into the shapes of stylized caracoles - conch shells - with rows of three tiny teeth swirling around them like the twisting figures of conchs.
Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan 2008
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