sliogán — meaning in English
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English meaning
- conch noun A large sea snail with a spiral shell, or the shell itself.
- seashell noun The hard outer shell of a sea creature such as a clam, snail, or mussel, especially one found washed up on a beach.
- shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
- shellfish noun An aquatic animal with a shell, such as a crab, mussel, or oyster, especially one eaten as food.
Senses
sliogán is used for these senses in English:
- conch The shell of this sea animal.
- conch Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- seashell The empty shell of a marine mollusk.
- shellfish A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.
conch — full definition
- noun A large sea snail with a spiral shell, or the shell itself.
- noun A trumpet-like instrument made by blowing into a large conch shell.
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