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Definition of Tusk shell
1. Noun. Any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing.
Definition of Tusk shell
1. Noun. any of the marine mollusks of the class ''Scaphopoda'', which look similar to elephant tusks. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tusk Shell
Literary usage of Tusk shell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Holes are bored through these flakes, which arc then valued by length, as in the
case of the American tusk- shell, the measuring, however, ..."
2. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"... oblique and notched on the convex side. This is the familiar tooth shell of
the New England coast and of the British Isles. The Elephant-tusk Shell (D. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"In Northern California, in Oregon, and still farther north, a rare species of
cylindrical univalve, the Dentalium, or tusk-shell, known in the Chinook ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1902)
"The tusk-shell of the west coast of America is another and very interesting case
of shell-money. It shows that although an object may be abun- dan t, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"On the coast of Puget Sound and northward the tusk-shell (Dentalium) prehistorically
served the purposes of money among the Indians of a large region, ..."
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