Usually means: Spiral-shaped shell of marine gastropods.
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  1. worm-shell: Wordnik
  2. worm-shell: Wiktionary
  3. Worm-shell, worm-shell: Dictionary.com
  4. Worm-shell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. worm-shell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Worm-shell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. worm-shell: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Worm-shell: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Worm-shell)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of worm shell [(zoology) Any member of the sea snail family Vermetidae.]

Similar:
vermetus, vermetid, wing-shell, boat shell, shell, vetigastropod, mitrid, lamp shell, marginella, file shell, more...

Opposite:
snake-shell, spiral shell, univalve shell

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Similar:
vermetus, vermetid, wing-shell, boat shell, shell, vetigastropod, mitrid, lamp shell, marginella, file shell, more...

Opposite:
snake-shell, spiral shell, univalve shell



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