(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:21:50

Spur"-shell` (?), n. Zool.

Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

 

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