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shell fish

shell fish:

1. concha: (usu. the shell, but also the entire creature): Ov. M. 10, 267 (Sidonis c. = purple s.): Lucr.

2. conchȳlium: usu. pl.: it happens to oysters and all kinds of shell-fish, ostreisque et conchyliis omnibus contingit, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33: cf. Plin. 9, 36, 60.

3. testa (collect. term): not every sea abounds in fine-flavoured s., non omne mare generosae fertile t., Hor. S. 2, 4, 31: the sea s., t. marina, ib. 2, 8, 53.

4. testācea, ōrum, n. (v. rare): every kind of s., omnia t., Plin. 32, 5, 20: the eyelids of all insects and s. move like the ears of quadrupeds, insectorum omnium et t. operimenta oculi moventur sicut quadrupedum aures, id. 11, 37, 55.

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