Usually means: Marine snails with spiral shells.
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  1. conchs: Merriam-Webster
  2. conchs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. conchs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Conchs, conchs: Wordnik
  5. Conchs, conchs: Wiktionary
  6. conchs: Dictionary.com
  7. conchs: FreeDictionary.org
  8. conchs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. conchs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Conch)

noun:  A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
noun:  The shell of this sea animal.
noun:  A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
noun:  (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
noun:  Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”)
verb:  To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
verb:  To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
noun:  (dated, ethnic slur) A British Bahamian.
noun:  A European caucasian Bahamian
noun:  (slang) A denizen of the Florida Keys
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