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land shells

land shells is the plural of land shell.

Meaning of land shell

Noun

land shell (plural land shells)

  1. A land snail; a terrestrial gastropod.
    • Several pretty beetles, a superb "bug," and a few nice land-shells were obtained, and I returned in the afternoon well satisfied with my first trial of the promised land.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 199

Questions about land shells

What is land shells the plural of?
Land shells is the plural of land shell.

Words near land shells in the dictionary

  1. land scrip
  2. land scrips
  3. land shark
  4. land sharks
  5. land shell
  6. land shells
  7. land shrimp
  8. land shrimps
  9. land sickness
  10. land slug
  11. land slugs

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