SCORPION SHELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scorpion shell mean? 

• SCORPION SHELL (noun)
  The noun SCORPION SHELL has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines

  Familiarity information: SCORPION SHELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCORPION SHELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("scorpion shell" is a kind of...):

snail (freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell)

Holonyms ("scorpion shell" is a member of...):

genus Lambis; Lambis (scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of the eastern hemisphere)