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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conch /kɒŋk, kɒn(t)ʃ/

▶noun (pl. conchs /kɒŋks/ or conches /ˈkɒntʃɪz/)

1 a tropical marine mollusc with a robust spiral shell which may bear long projections and have a flared lip. [Strombus and other genera: many species.]

2 Architecture the roof of a semicircular apse.

3 another term for concha.

– origin ME: from L. concha ‘shellfish, shell’, from Gk konkhē ‘mussel, cockle, or shell-like cavity’.

'conch' also found in these Oxford entries:

cockle - concha - conchiglie - conk - conker - coquina

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