Scaphopods are burrowing animals that are also called tusk or tooth shells.
Wampum, used in North America, was usually fashioned from thick-shelled clams; dentalia, or tooth shells, were popular with the coastal Native Americans of W North America.
They are also known as tooth shells and resemble an elephant's tusks.
Even I, who entered not knowing an egg cockle from a dosinia, came out savvy of tooth shells and lightning whelks.
Amphineura, containing the chitons, and Scaphopoda, represented by the elephant tooth shell, are two classes of less popular interest.
The tusk or tooth shells, as they are more commonly known, have the simplest shell structure and anatomy of all the molluscs.
Definition of tooth shell in US English:
tooth shell
nounˈto͞oTH ˌSHel
A burrowing mollusk with a slender tusk-shaped shell, which is open at both ends and typically white, and a three-lobed foot.
Class Scaphopoda, in particular the genus Dentalium
Also called tusk shell
Example sentencesExamples
They are also known as tooth shells and resemble an elephant's tusks.
Even I, who entered not knowing an egg cockle from a dosinia, came out savvy of tooth shells and lightning whelks.
Wampum, used in North America, was usually fashioned from thick-shelled clams; dentalia, or tooth shells, were popular with the coastal Native Americans of W North America.
Scaphopods are burrowing animals that are also called tusk or tooth shells.
The tusk or tooth shells, as they are more commonly known, have the simplest shell structure and anatomy of all the molluscs.
Amphineura, containing the chitons, and Scaphopoda, represented by the elephant tooth shell, are two classes of less popular interest.