Argus shell: Definition and part of speech

Argus shell

  1. A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock’s tail.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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