Venus's-comb

noun

variants or less commonly Venus comb

plural Venus's-combs

1

: lady's-comb

2

: a marine snail (Murex tenuispina) having a long tubular canal with a row of long slender spines along both of its borders and rows of similar spines on the body of the shell

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