conchylia

But he points out, for instance, that to-day the shells of mollusks (snails and conchylia) are regarded as structures that were acquired only in the course of time for the sake of protection, the disappearance of which, therefore, implied a disadvantage for the respective organisms.

At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert

As the corals approach the conchylia, this interramification decreases.

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

The tubipora of the corals connects with the serpula of the conchylia.

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Cum fame canis avida in Tyrio littore projecta conchylia impressis mandibulis contudisset, illa naturaliter humorem sanguineum diffluentia ora ejus mirabili colore tinxerunt: et ut est mos hominibus occasiones repentinas ad artes ducere, talia exempla meditantes fecerunt principibus decus nobile. l.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759

Plcna domns tunc omnis, & ingcns ftabat accrvus loo Nummonipi, Spartana chlamys, conchylia Coa,

A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

The tongue of the murex is bigger than one’s finger, and by means of it, it feeds, and perforates conchylia and the shells of its own kind.

The History of Animals 2002