Meaning & use
conch
A large sea snail with a spiral shell, or the shell itself, sometimes used as a horn.
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He found a pink conch shell washed up on the beach after the storm.
The islanders blew a conch to signal that the fishing boats had returned.
A note on using this word
The word is pronounced "konk" in most everyday speech, not as it is spelled.
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