A marine or freshwater mollusc with a long conical spiral shell.
锥形螺旋壳软体动物，觿螺
Hydrobiidae and related families, class Gastropoda
Example sentencesExamples
In the sand you can find cone shells, spire shells and flatfish.
The millions of small black specks that littered the sand were likely to have been tiny laver spire shells.
An area of mudflat similar to that occupied by a dinghy could hold 40,000 tiny Laver spire shells, 60,000 Corophium shrimps, 50,000 Baltic Tellin shellfish or up to 500 Ragworms.
He would approach an area of sand on the bottom, wave his hand vigorously to remove the top layers and find these beautiful spire shells.
One square metre of mud might contain thousands of tiny spire shells.
Definition of spire shell in US English:
spire shell
noun
A marine or freshwater mollusk with a long conical spiral shell.
锥形螺旋壳软体动物，觿螺
Hydrobiidae and related families, class Gastropoda
Example sentencesExamples
The millions of small black specks that littered the sand were likely to have been tiny laver spire shells.
He would approach an area of sand on the bottom, wave his hand vigorously to remove the top layers and find these beautiful spire shells.
In the sand you can find cone shells, spire shells and flatfish.
One square metre of mud might contain thousands of tiny spire shells.
An area of mudflat similar to that occupied by a dinghy could hold 40,000 tiny Laver spire shells, 60,000 Corophium shrimps, 50,000 Baltic Tellin shellfish or up to 500 Ragworms.