scallop shell

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   a shell of a scallop

   Broadershell

Questions about scallop shell

What does scallop shell mean?

scallop shell means "a shell of a scallop".

Is scallop shell a common word?

scallop shell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.