wing-shell

English

Noun

wing-shell (plural wing-shells)

1. 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.
2. Any marine gastropod shell formerly in the genus Strombus, with species now assigned to several genera, principally in the family Strombidae.
3. (archaic) Any pteropod shell.

Further reading

• 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)