conch
About 0.61 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- noun The shell of this sea animal.
- noun A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
- noun The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
- noun Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- verb To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
- verb To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
Similar words
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Often followed by
shell shells and is of fritters in chowder or
Word family
conches conchs
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