: the shell of a marine animal and especially a mollusk
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Spring is sweet and romantic with a toss of flower petals, Summer features a seashell scene and, look out, tennis rackets.—Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025 Fill up your seashell cups and break out the mother-of-pearl dishes for caviar.—Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 21 Feb. 2025 Her mother, Margaret Laycock, 60, spent 15 hours turning 500 seashells into two wedding bouquets for her.—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Feb. 2025 California Hit With Another Earthquake California has 42 official state symbols after Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills to create new symbols in 2024, including the Dungeness crab as the state crustacean, the banana slug as the state slug, and the black abalone as the state seashell.—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seashell
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of seashell was
before the 12th century
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