Vocabulary : Conchifer to Conchological

Conchifer : One of the Conchifera.
Conchifera : That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.
Conchiferous : Producing or having shells.
Conchiform : Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
Conchinine : See Quinidine.

Conchite : A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
Conchitic : Composed of shells; containing many shells.
Conchoid : A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
Conchoidal : Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
Conchological : Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.

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