EGAVE

conch

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
  2. noun The shell of this sea animal.
  3. noun A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
  4. noun The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
  5. noun Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
  6. verb To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  7. 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

gumbo soup taco bag nursery cone production trumpet fritters wing-shell

Often followed by

shell shells and is of fritters in chowder or

Word family

conches conchs

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