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Definition of Moon shell
1. Noun. Marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moon Shell
Literary usage of Moon shell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"N. clausa, Brod. and Sby., is a whitish moon shell, j inch to 2 inches across
... and West Indian moon shell found also along the Atlantic to Cape Hatteras. ..."
2. The Moon in Modern Astronomy: Summary of Twenty Years Selenographic Work by Philipp Fauth, Joseph McCabe, John Ellard Gore (1909)
"Why these interesting localities do not engender hoar-frost under the 14-days
ardour of the sun, as the other parts of the moon's shell, consisting of ..."
3. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1839)
"Gbs. The two best known species of this well denned genus are the P. Placenta,
commonly called the moon shell, and the P. sella, called the Saddle Oyster, ..."
4. Sketches of Summerland: Giving Some Account of Nassau and the Bahama Islands by George J H. Northcroft (1902)
"Moon-shell: flat, round and while, with four series of holes radiating from the
centre ; sometimes called "sea-biscuit," Cow-shell: a small thick univalve, ..."
5. Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria by Henry Fitz Randolph (1888)
"And still more distant through the gray sky floats The faint blue fragment of
the dead moon's shell; Not dead indeed, but vacant, ..."
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