melon shell

melon shell
noun
: any of several very large ovoid and often lustrous and richly colored gastropod mollusks constituting the genus Cymbium and being widely distributed in the southwestern Pacific ocean — called also bailer shell, boat shell

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melon shell,
the shell of a marine gastropod, such as the bailer, so called from the shape.

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