What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.
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Seashell
Synonyms for "seashell"
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Translations
109 translations across 73 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skulp noun (shell)
Albanian
1 entries- guaskë noun (shell)
Amharic
1 entries- ዛጐል noun (shell)
Arabic
3 entries- صَدَفَة noun (shell)
- صَدَفَة بَحْرِيَّة noun (shell)
- مَحَارَة noun (shell)
Armenian
2 entries- խեցի noun (shell)
- ծովախեցի noun (shell)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dəniz qabığı noun (shell)
- qabıq noun (shell)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡабырсаҡ noun (shell)
Belarusian
3 entries- ра́кавіна noun (shell)
- раку́шка noun (shell)
- чарапа́х noun (shell)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ра́ковина noun (shell)
Catalan
2 entries- blanc perla noun (colour)
- conquilla noun (shell)
Chamicuro
1 entries- c̈hota noun (shell)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏯᏍᎦ noun (shell)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 海貝 /海贝 noun (shell)
- 貝殼 /贝壳 noun (shell)
Corsican
1 entries- cunchiglia noun (shell)
Czech
2 entries- mušle noun (shell)
- schránka noun (shell)
Danish
1 entries- konkylie noun (shell)
Dutch
1 entries- schelp noun (shell)
Esperanto
1 entries- konko noun (shell)
Estonian
1 entries- merikarp noun (shell)
Faroese
1 entries- gágga noun (shell)
Finnish
3 entries- kotilo noun (shell)
- näkinkenkä noun (shell)
- simpukankuori noun (shell)
French
1 entries- coquille noun (shell)
Galician
1 entries- cuncha noun (shell)
Georgian
1 entries- ნიჟარა noun (shell)
German
2 entries- Muschel noun (shell)
- Muschelschale noun (shell)
Greek
1 entries- όστρακο noun (shell)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pūpū noun (shell)
Hebrew
2 entries- צֶדֶף noun (shell)
- קוֹנְכִיָּה noun (shell)
Hindi
1 entries- कौड़ी noun (shell)
Hungarian
2 entries- kagyló noun (shell)
- kagylóhéj noun (shell)
Ido
1 entries- konko noun (shell)
Indonesian
2 entries- kerang laut noun (shell)
- lokan noun (shell)
Irish
2 entries- sliogán noun (shell)
- sliogán trá noun (shell)
Italian
1 entries- conchiglia noun (shell)
Japanese
1 entries- 貝殻 noun (shell)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕಪ್ಪೆಚಿಪ್ಪು noun (shell)
Kazakh
3 entries- айғұлақ noun (shell)
- бақалшық noun (shell)
- қабыршақ noun (shell)
Khmer
1 entries- ខ្យង noun (shell)
Korean
1 entries- 조개 noun (shell)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- раковина noun (shell)
Lao
2 entries- ກາບຫອຍທະເລ noun (shell)
- ເປືອກ noun (shell)
Latvian
1 entries- gliemežnīca noun (shell)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kriauklė noun (shell)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Muschel noun (shell)
Manx
1 entries- shlig varrey noun (shell)
Mirandese
1 entries- concha noun (shell)
Māori
2 entries- angaanga noun (shell)
- kotakota noun (shell)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skjell noun (shell)
Occitan
1 entries- cauquilha noun (shell)
Persian
4 entries- شنج noun (shell)
- شنجی noun (colour)
- صدف noun (shell)
- صدفی noun (colour)
Polish
2 entries- muszelka noun (shell)
- muszla noun (shell)
Portuguese
1 entries- concha noun (shell)
Rohingya
1 entries- horí noun (shell)
Romanian
1 entries- scoică noun (shell)
Russian
3 entries- ра́ковина noun (shell)
- ра́кушка noun (shell)
- раку́шка noun (shell)
Slovak
1 entries- lastúra noun (shell)
Slovene
1 entries- lupina školjke noun (shell)
Spanish
1 entries- concha noun (shell)
Swedish
2 entries- musselskal noun (shell)
- snäcka noun (shell)
Tajik
1 entries- садаф noun (shell)
Tarifit
1 entries- ajɣur noun (shell)
Telugu
1 entries- చిప్ప noun (shell)
Thai
1 entries- เปลือกหอย noun (shell)
Tibetan
3 entries- ཉ་སོག noun (shell)
- དུང noun (shell)
- མགྲོན་བུ noun (shell)
Turkish
4 entries- balık kulağı noun (shell)
- deniz kabuğu noun (shell)
- kabuk noun (shell)
- mühre noun (shell)
Turkmen
1 entries- gabyk noun (shell)
Ukrainian
3 entries- му́шля noun (shell)
- ра́ковина noun (shell)
- черепа́шка noun (shell)
Urdu
1 entries- سَمُندْری صَدَف noun (shell)
Uzbek
2 entries- dengiz qobigʻi noun (shell)
- qobik noun (shell)
Venetan
1 entries- capa noun (shell)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vỏ sò noun (shell)
Welsh
2 entries- cragen noun (shell)
- cragen fôr noun (shell)
Yiddish
1 entries- מושל noun (shell)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He heard the sea in a seashell.
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Tom found a seashell on the beach.
Source: tatoeba (6323125)
Oh, a seashell!
Source: tatoeba (6835819)
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