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Meaning of "tusk shell" in the English dictionary

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tusk shell


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUSK SHELL

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Tusk shell is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TUSK SHELL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tusk shell

The tusk shells or scaphopods are a class of shelled marine molluscs. The scientific name of this class is Scaphopoda, meaning literally "boat-footed". Shells of species within this class range from about 0.5 to 15 cm in length. Members of the Order Dentaliida are generally significantly larger than those of the Order Gadilida. These molluscs live on soft substrates offshore. Because of this subtidal habitat and the small size of most species, many beachcombers are unfamiliar with them; their shells are usually not nearly as common or as easily visible in the beach drift as the shells of sea snails and clams. Molecular data suggests that the scaphopods are a sister group to the cephalopods, although higher-level molluscan phylogeny remains somewhat unresolved.

Definition of tusk shell in the English dictionary

The definition of tusk shell in the dictionary is any of various burrowing seashore molluscs of the genus Dentalium and related genera that have a long narrow tubular shell open at both ends: class Scaphopoda Also called: tooth shell.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUSK SHELL

tusche · Tusculan · Tusculum · tush · tushery · tushie · tusk · tusk tenon · tuskar · tusked · tusker · tuskless · tusklike · tusky · tussah · tussal · Tussaud · tusser · tussis · tussive

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUSK SHELL

aeroshell · bandshell · blonde bombshell · bodyshell · bombshell · clamshell · cockleshell · eggshell · hard-shell · hell · high-explosive shell · in a nutshell · nutshell · scallop shell · seashell · shell · snail shell · soft-shell · subshell · top-shell · tortoiseshell

Synonyms and antonyms of tusk shell in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tusk shell» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of tusk shell to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tusk shell from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tusk shell» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

象牙壳
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

colmillo shell
570 millions of speakers
en

English

tusk shell
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Tusk खोल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ناب قذيفة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

бивень оболочки
278 millions of speakers
pt

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presa shell
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

টুসকি শেল
260 millions of speakers
fr

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défense coque
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kulit tusk
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Tusk Shell
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

牙シェル
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

엄니 쉘
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tusk shell
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vỏ ngà
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

டாஸ் ஷெல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

दांडगा कुरळे करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Göknar kabuğu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

zanna shell
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Tusk powłoki
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

бивень оболонки
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

Tusk coajă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μπρόσμιου κέλυφος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Tusk dop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lubb skal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

brosme shell
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUSK SHELL»

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Aquatic Life of the World: Tarpon-Wrasse
It also has a small head A fertilized tusk shell egg develops into a free-swimming larva. Tiny hairlike cilia beat in the water, creating a slight gliding movement and capturing food. The larva is kept in suspension and dispersed by the movement ...
‎2001
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Peterson First Guide to Shells of North America
These filaments. which are attached to lobes around the mouth. branch out under the sand to anchor the tusk shell and capture food — single-celled protozoa — and pass it to the tusk animal's mouth. where It is crushed with the radular teeth ...
Roger Tory Peterson, 1998
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West Coast Shells: A Description in Familiar Terms of ...
Dentalium neohexagonum Sharp and Pilsbry, the Hexagonal Tusk-shell, is the common species of southern California. Sometimes the shells are two inches in length, and as the name indicates, a cross section would be six- sided. The shell is ...
Josiah Keep, Joshua Longstreth Baily, 1947
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Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, ...
The Texas tusk shell, Dentalium texasianum (Figure 7.38), also lives in inlet- influenced portions of Gulf bays. It is easily recognized by its slender tapering, curved shell, which is hexagonal in cross -section. Dentalium is not a snail, as might be ...
Susan B. Rothschild, 2004
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Seashells
Class Scaphopoda (Tusk Shells) If ever a creature fit the description of being "just an old stick in the mud," it's the tusk shell. These innocuous mollusks have slightly curved cone shapes, which look like tiny elephant tusks. Their scientific name ...
Budd Titlow
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British Seashells
As he did with so many other organisms, the father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus was the first person to describe formally a tusk shell in his Systema Naturae of 1758. Linnaeus named entalis after the Latin slang for these shells, enthaliurn, which ...
Paul Chambers, 2009
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Sea Shells of Tropical West America: Marine Mollusks from ...
The popular name is tusk shell or tooth shell. The tapering, tubular, usually white shell is open at both ends, and the soft parts are modified for active life just beneath the surface of the sea floor, where the animal sifts the sand with slender  ...
Angeline Myra Keen, 1971
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A Complete Course in ISC Biology
Dentalium (Tusk Shell) Dentalium is found in shallow sea. It burrows in the ocean floor with its conical muscular foot. The body is worm-like and is enclosed in a tubular mantle and shell. The tubular shell is open at both ends and is slightly ...
V. B. Rastogi, B. Kishore, 1997
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Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the ...
The Yurok were preoccupied with the acquisition of wealth, in the form of tusk, shell strings, and also woodpecker scalps and obsidian. They believed that if a man fulfilled all religious obligations meticulously, not only would he have luck in  ...
Douglas C. Comer, 1996
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Modern Biology
Dentalium (Tusk Shell) Dentalium is found in shallow sea. It burrows in the ocean floor with its conical muscular foot. The body is worm-like and is enclosed in a tubular mantle and shell. The tubular shell is open at both ends and is slightly ...
V. B. Rastogi, 1997

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUSK SHELL»

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Pilbara digs debunk timeline for ancient tool development
They uncovered ornaments including a Baler Shell fragment decorated with cross-hatched incisions and drilled holes, and tusk shell beads within a unit dated to ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
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Prehistoric beads were made from British shells
A new technique to identify the type of shell used to make early, decorative beads ... dog whelk shells, while one was shown to be most similar to a tusk shell. «Phys.Org, Jul 14»
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Necklace suggests Bronze Age Brits kept it local
A new study analyzing amino acids in a mollusk shell necklace shows that Bronze Age ... “Dog whelks and tusk shells were likely to be available locally so these ... «Futurity: Research News, Jun 14»
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What Amino Acids in Shells tell us About Bronze Age People
From completing this research the team managed to discover that the craftspeople of the Bronze Age used dog whelk and tusk shells, it is probable that these ... «HeritageDaily, Jun 14»
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Bronze Age bling! Archaeologists discover 4000-year-old necklace …
Bonze Age craftsmen used species such as dog whelk and tusk shells, both of which were likely to have been sourced and worked locally, to fashion the tiny ... «Daily Mail, Jun 14»
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Oldest signs of Japanese using tools uncovered in Okinawa
NAHA, Okinawa Prefecture--Archaeologists have unearthed shell tools around ... Also unearthed were two tusk shell fragments believed to have been used as ... «Asahi Shimbun, Feb 14»
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