Usually means: Marine mollusk with elongated shell.
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  1. tusk shell: Merriam-Webster
  2. tusk shell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tusk shell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tusk shell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tusk shell: Vocabulary.com
  6. tusk-shell: Wordnik
  7. tusk shell: Wiktionary
  8. Tusk-shell, tusk-shell, tusk shell: Dictionary.com
  9. Tusk shell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tusk-shell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. tusk-shell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. tusk shell: Rhymezone
  13. Tusk-shell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tusk-shell, tusk shell: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tusk shell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Tusk-shell, tusk shell: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tusk shell: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tusk shell)

▸ noun:  Any of the marine mollusks of the class Scaphopoda, which resemble elephant tusks.

Similar:
tooth shell, tusk, tusker, tuskar, tushker, turricone, tush, shell, turbinid, scaphitocone, more...

Opposite:
tuskless, atusk, non-tusk, untusked

Types:
scaphopod, more...

Adjectives:
molluscan, brachyuran, homarine, medusoid, cancrine, gribble, lobster, clam, acraspedote, periwinkle, piciform

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Similar:
tooth shell, tusk, tusker, tuskar, tushker, turricone, tush, shell, turbinid, scaphitocone, more...

Opposite:
tuskless, atusk, non-tusk, untusked

Types:
scaphopod, more...

Adjectives:
molluscan, brachyuran, homarine, medusoid, cancrine, gribble, lobster, clam, acraspedote, periwinkle, piciform



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