BUTTON SHELL


Meaning of BUTTON SHELL in English

noun

: any of several somewhat flattened gastropod mollusks: as

a. : a large Australian top shell ( Trochus niloticus )

b. : the marine pulmonate snail ( Gadinia reticulata ) of the California coast that resembles a limpet

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