Usually means: Mollusk with distinct wing-like projections.
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  1. wing-shell: Wordnik
  2. wing-shell: Wiktionary
  3. Wing-shell, wing-shell: Dictionary.com
  4. Wing-shell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. wing-shell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Wing-shell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. wing-shell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. wing-shell: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Wing-shell: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wing-shell)

noun:  Any of various species of marine bivalve shells formerly belonging to the no longer accepted genus Avicula, now a synonym of Pteria, with species assigned to several genera, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.
noun:  Any marine gastropod shell formerly in the genus Strombus, with species now assigned to several genera, principally in the family Strombidae.
noun:  (archaic) Any pteropod shell.

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