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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lamp shell

▶noun a marine invertebrate resembling a bivalve mollusc, with arms of ciliated tentacles used for filter-feeding. [Phylum Brachiopoda.]

– origin C19: from its resemblance to an ancient oil lamp.

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