tooth shell

1. 1.

   any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing

   Synonymstusk shell

   Broaderscaphopod

Questions about tooth shell

What does tooth shell mean?

tooth shell means "any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing".

What is another word for tooth shell?

Close synonyms include tusk shell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tooth shell a common word?

tooth 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.