scorpion shell

1. 1.

   any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines

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Questions about scorpion shell

What does scorpion shell mean?

scorpion shell means "any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines".

Is scorpion shell a common word?

scorpion 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.