strombus

See also: Strombus

English

The shell of Strombus gigas, a species of strombus.

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Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑm.bəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑm.bəs/

Noun

strombus (plural strombuses or strombi)

1. (zoology) Any of the genus Strombus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 strombus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• substorm

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstrom.bus/, [ˈs̠t̪ɾɔm.bʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstrom.bus/, [ˈst̪rɔm.bus]

Noun

strombus m (genitive strombī); second declension

1. A kind of spiral snail

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	strombus	strombī
Genitive	strombī	strombōrum
Dative	strombō	strombīs
Accusative	strombum	strombōs
Ablative	strombō	strombīs
Vocative	strombe	strombī

References

• strombus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• strombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette