wing-shell

English edit

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Noun edit

wing-shell (plural wing-shells)

Any of various species of marine bivalve shells formerly belonging to the no longer accepted genus Avicula, now a synonym of Pteria, with species assigned to several genera, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.
Any marine gastropod shell formerly in the genus Strombus, with species now assigned to several genera, principally in the family Strombidae.
(archaic) Any pteropod shell.

Further reading edit

Pteria (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pteria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pteria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Pteria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Avicula at World Register of Marine Species
Strombus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Strombus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Strombus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
wing-shell at National Center for Biotechnology Information
wing-shell at World Register of Marine Species
“wing-shell”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wing-shell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)