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Venus shell

British

noun

a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae, typified by the intertidal Venus gallina, with somewhat rounded ribbed valves

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This is, however, a transferred meaning, porcellana being the name of a particularly glossy shell called the "Venus shell."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

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