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CONCHA
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Irregular inflected form: conchae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape
Classified under:
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)