A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
The shell of this sea animal.
Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”)
The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.
The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
A spiral or scroll form.
Of a spring: having a spiral curve on its tail.