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CONCHA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: conchae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("concha" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concha"):

nasal concha (one of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity)

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