tusk 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

   Synonymstooth shell

   Broaderscaphopod

Questions about tusk shell

What does tusk shell mean?

tusk 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 tusk shell?

Close synonyms include tooth 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 tusk shell a common word?

tusk 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.