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conchæ

conchæ is the plural of concha.

Meaning of concha

Noun

concha (plural conchae or (archaic) conchæ)

  1. Any shell-shaped structure
    • In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2020
  2. The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening.
  3. An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.

Questions about conchæ

What is conchæ the plural of?
Conchæ is the plural of concha.

Words near conchæ in the dictionary

  1. conchyliologist
  2. conchyliologists
  3. conchyliology
  4. conchyliometry
  5. conchylious
  6. conchæ
  7. concial
  8. conciator
  9. conciators
  10. concience
  11. concientious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conchæ (page history and authors); concha (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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