frog shell

noun

: any of numerous chiefly tropical gastropod mollusks (family Cymatiidae) that resemble the related tritons but have notably thick heavy rugose or tuberculated shells

also : a shell of one of these mollusks

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

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