SCORPION SHELL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("scorpion shell" is a kind of...):

snail (freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell)

Holonyms ("scorpion shell" is a member of...):

genus Lambis; Lambis (scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of the eastern hemisphere)

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