noun
marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires
• Syn: ↑moonshell
• Hypernyms: ↑seasnail
• Member Holonyms: ↑Naticidae, ↑family Naticidae
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noun : a globose smooth-shelled carnivorous marine snail of the family Naticidae
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1. any marine gastropod of the family Naticidae, having a rounded, short-spired, smooth shell.
2. the shell itself.
[1935-40]
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moon shell,
1. = moon snail. (Cf. ↑moon snail)
2. the shell of this snail.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.