Dictionary Entry
conch
conch is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
- 2noun
In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
- 3noun
One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
- 4noun
See Concha.
- 5noun
The external ear. See Concha., 2.
- 6noun
any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
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