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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
Classified under:
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)