NOUN | animal | scorpion shell | any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines |
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Meaning | Any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines. | |
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Member of | Lambis, genus Lambis | scorpion shells of shallow tropical waters of the eastern hemisphere |
Broader | snail | Freshwater or marine or terrestrial / terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell |
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