Conches

Word CONCHES
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈkɒntʃəz/

Definitions and meanings of "Conches"

What do we mean by conches?

A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.

The shell of this sea animal.

A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.

The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.

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The word "conches" in example sentences

Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers. ❋ AP (2010)

"conches," and surrounded by the wild orange blossoms of massive poinciana trees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Have you ever heard a call, Kanaka Oolea, that is without sound yet is louder than the conches of God? ❋ Unknown (2010)

From across the river persisted a bedlam of conches; while from everywhere, drifting for miles along the quiet air, came the deep, booming reverberations of the great war-drums — huge tree trunks, hollowed by fire and carved with tools of stone and shell. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You'll hear the conches to-night, and the war-drums, and all merry hell break loose. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As we came down upon him, covering the sea and blowing our conches, he put off from the schooner in the small boat, along with the three black boys, and rowed for the passage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Next morning, with the bush alive with signal-smoke, a bedlam of conches and booming war-drums, Grief tells the others to stay close and wait for McTavish who Grief will send up on the Wanda with a bunch of Malaita bushmen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These huge creatures -- the one I saw must have weighed 400 or more pounds -- eat molluscs -- snails, conches, scallops, off the sea floor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I looked around at all the photographs on the wall and lined up on tiny shelves; Durga and Krishna, Ganesh and Laxmi, their beatific faces and brightly colored clothes, all of them holding conches or tridents, eyes half closed, palms facing outward in blessing. ❋ Kavita Daswani (2007)

I set about gathering some of the many rock conches surrounding us. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

The conches were like chewy fish, the flowers were limp and slightly sweet lettuce, the buds have no comparison in Earthly food because none is so awful. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

May walked swiftly past Celeste and placed the urn on the mantel over the fireplace that Emery had never seen used—Celeste had arranged pots of dried geraniums and cattails on the hearth and circled them with a select collection of shells, conches larger than anyone had found on Ocracoke in years, curved driftwood smooth as skin. ❋ Quinn Dalton (2005)

Don't know how much to read into this but "conchs" and "conches" get roughly equal number of hits when restricted to English-language pages. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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