Spur-shell

Spur´-shell`

(spûr´shĕl`)

(Zool.) Any one of several species of handsome marine gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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