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Definition of Lamp shell
1. Noun. Marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide.
Generic synonyms: Invertebrate
Group relationships: Brachiopoda, Phylum Brachiopoda
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamp Shell
Literary usage of Lamp shell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gasoline Automobile by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"Every lamp requires these three fittings—a socket secured in the lamp shell, a
bulb base entering the socket at the inside of the lamp shell and a connector ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... lamps perfectly free from water, and new wicks should be carefully dried before
being inserted in the burner. See also SAFETY-LAMP, LUCIGEN. Lamp-Shell ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Any member of this genus, or a similar brachiopod ; a lamp-shell. ... A fossil
terebratula, or some similar lamp-shell ; a member of the genus Tere- ..."
4. Popular Zoology by Joel Dorman Steele, John Whipple Potter Jenks (1887)
"In the Lamp-shell of the New England coast, these shells are united posteriorly
by a hinge, while projecting from the larger is a short FIG 46. ..."
5. The Present Evolution of Man by George Archdall O'Brien Reid (1896)
"... that amount of reversion which in the offspring of a man would result in a
fish, would in the offspring of a lamp-shell result iu another lamp-shell, ..."
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