tusk shell

Questions about tusk shell

What is another word for tusk shell?

It depends which tusk shell you mean. In the sense “any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing”, the synonyms are tooth shell. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tusk shell?

WordNet records no antonym for tusk shell. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tusk shell come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of tusk shell

• Full entry for tusk shellAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tusk shellWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.