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Webster 1913 Edition
Strombus
‖
Strom′bus
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
(Zool.)
A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called
conch shells
, or conchs
. See Conch
.