seashell

or sea shell

[ see-shel ]

/ ˈsiˌʃɛl /

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noun

the shell of any marine mollusk.

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Origin of seashell

before 900; Old English sǣscill (not recorded in Middle English ) see sea, shell

Words nearby seashell

seascape, sea scorpion, sea scout, sea serpent, sea shanty, seashell, seashore, Seashore test, seasick, seasickness, seaside

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How to use seashell in a sentence

Panic ensues, but then you dig your hand into your pocket, and it jingles reassuringly — not with coins, but seashells!
Creative Currencies — The Anti-Crypto|Sohini Das Gupta|August 11, 2021|Ozy
It would be the greatest honor, even today, to be buried among seashells.
The human history found inside a seashell|Katharine Norbury|July 30, 2021|Washington Post
Barnett had “set out to listen to seashells as chroniclers of nature’s truth.”
The human history found inside a seashell|Katharine Norbury|July 30, 2021|Washington Post
Items placed in the grave included a seashell, a large, flat rock and several ropes, one with elaborate knots and a tassel at one end.
A skeleton from Peru vies for the title of oldest known shark attack victim|Bruce Bower|July 30, 2021|Science News

Pigment-stained seashells in the grave may have held solutions into which tattooers dipped those tools.
The oldest known tattoo tools were found at an ancient Tennessee site|Bruce Bower|May 25, 2021|Science News
He was just opening it when the seashell was sent whizzing forward.
From Farm to Fortune|Horatio Alger Jr.
The crowd finds these systems ready-made and merely backs into them and hides itself like a hermit crab in a deserted seashell.
The Behavior of Crowds|Everett Dean Martin
How strange was the monotonous sound of the waves, mournful and distant, like the sound in a seashell!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various
The operculum,21 of a seashell, or very occasionally some bright object, may set off the knob.
The Manbos of Mindano|John M. Garvan
On each side of the base is a shallow silver dish shaped like a seashell and supported by dolphins.
Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology|Margaret Brown Klapthor

British Dictionary definitions for seashell

seashell

/ (ˈsiːˌʃɛl) /

noun

the empty shell of a marine mollusc

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