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n. Anatomy Any of various structures, such as the external ear, that resemble a shell in shape. Also called conch.

n. Architecture The half dome over an apse.

n. Any shell-shaped structure.

n. The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone.

n. An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.

n. The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

n. The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

n. In anatomy and zoology: The outer ear; the pinna of the ear; the auricle; especially, the shell of the ear, the hollowed part within the antihelix, leading into the meatus. See cut under car.

n. A shell of bone, or a bone like a shell; a turbinated bone.

n. Same as couch, 6.

n. [ML., ⟩ OF. conque.] An old dry measure of Gascony and Navarre, about 5 pecks, Winchester measure.

n. Same as conch, 10.

n. The thin, translucent shell of a bivalve mollusk, sometimes used for window-panes in the East Indies.

n. (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape

"Etaya is fituated on a very high bank of the river Jurnna, the fides of which confift of what in India is called concha, which is originally fand, but the conftant adion of the fun in the dry feafon forms it almofl into a vitrification."

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