Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The shell of a marine mollusk or of another marine organism, such as a brachiopod.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The shell of any saltwater mollusk; a marine shell, such as may be found on the sea-shore. See
Oceanides , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The shell of any marine mollusk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the empty
shell of a marinemollusk - noun A very light pink colour, like that of some seashell.
- adjective Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashell.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the shell of a marine organism
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Examples
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Anyway, next is some mini beads, also from ELC, in seashell designs (being handwork, those will probably go on tonight while I watch House and Tuesday's CSI).
Archive 2007-06-01 katelnorth 2007
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Anyway, next is some mini beads, also from ELC, in seashell designs (being handwork, those will probably go on tonight while I watch House and Tuesday's CSI).
Summer, expanded squares, and so on katelnorth 2007
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She could hear the faint sound that caves made — it was like holding a seashell to your ear, only in this case the seashell was a lot bigger, and she was standing inside — and, somewhere in the distance, Glory could hear the faint, definitive plashing of water.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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But, however tempestuous this is within me, it comes out as the low voice of a curiously colored seashell, which is only for those ears that are bent with compassion to hear it.
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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
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The sounds you hear in a seashell are the exact same sounds that are always being made around you, although some may be so low that either you don't hear them or you don't pay attention to them.
unknown title 2009
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"The pattern on a seashell is the mollusk's memories," said Oster, a professor of environmental science, policy and management and of molecular and cell biology.
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EXAMPLE: aeehllss is 'seashell' argh argh argh argh argh argh argh sent out a meanie email ... about me ...
gotmedown Diary Entry gotmedown 2004
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Hearth & Home | Outdoor decorating 2010 classic profile is fresh in the fashionably light "seashell" finish.
mollusque commented on the word seashell
He spoke in a beautiful, lilting English, which I barely listened to, so intent was I on Martha, incongruous, unexpected, out of place, a fossil, my seashell in the Andes.
--Cathleen Schine, 1998, The Evolution of Jane
November 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word seashell
Just started reading this book, mollusque. I'll have to look out for this line. :-)
November 9, 2007
yarb commented on the word seashell
Presumably Martha was some other kind of mountain seashell than a Rocky Mountain oyster.
November 9, 2007