Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for heart shell. Search instead for heart+shell.

heart shell

American  

noun

  1. any of numerous bivalve mollusks, especially of the families Cardiidae and Carditidae, having a heart-shaped shell.

  2. the shell itself.

Etymology

Origin of heart shell

First recorded in 1745–55

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.