Word Meanings - WEDGE-SHELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.

• General
  Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.
• Generated
  of Generate
• Shapen
  of Shape
• Shellfish
  Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
• Wedged
  of Wedge
• WEDGEFORMED
  Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform. Wedge-formed characters. See Arrow-headed characters, under Arrowheaded.
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Generalia
  Generalities; general terms.
• Generating
  of Generate
• Shaping
  of Shape
• Shell-less
  Having no shell.
• Wedgebill
  An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
• WEDGEGAUGEWEDGEGAGE
  A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.
• Allision
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
• Alliteral
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• Generalissimo
  The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
• Generate
  To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
• Shellproof
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• Wedge-formed
  Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.

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