Word.ws English Dictionary

trough-shell

trough-shell noun: any bivalve mollusc of the genus Mactra.

Noun

trough-shell (plural trough-shells)

  1. Any bivalve mollusc of the genus Mactra.

Forms of trough-shell

pluraltrough-shells

Questions about trough-shell

What does trough-shell mean?
Trough-shell means any bivalve mollusc of the genus Mactra.
What part of speech is trough-shell?
Trough-shell is a noun.
What is the plural of trough-shell?
The plural of trough-shell is trough-shells.

Words near trough-shell in the dictionary

  1. trough lolly
  2. trough shell
  3. trough shells
  4. trough valley
  5. trough valleys
  6. trough-shell
  7. trough-shells
  8. troughed
  9. trougher
  10. troughers
  11. troughful

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trough-shell (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “trough-shell.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/trough-shell. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.