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  • noun Plural form of conch.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conch.

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Examples

  • Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers.

    Nations Negotiate Climate Change As Cancun's Beaches Disappear AP 2010

  • Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers.

    USATODAY.com News 2010

  • Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARK STEVENSON 2010

  • Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Experts note that dredging sandy sea bottoms affects the populations that live there, such as conches, octopus and sea cucumbers.

    USATODAY.com News 2010

  • "conches," and surrounded by the wild orange blossoms of massive poinciana trees.

    ...And Nail 2010

  • Have you ever heard a call, Kanaka Oolea, that is without sound yet is louder than the conches of God?

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • From across the river persisted a bedlam of conches; while from everywhere, drifting for miles along the quiet air, came the deep, booming reverberations of the great war-drums — huge tree trunks, hollowed by fire and carved with tools of stone and shell.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

  • You'll hear the conches to-night, and the war-drums, and all merry hell break loose.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

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