Strŏm'bus, n.

noun

n. [Lat., Gr. στρόμβος, a snail-shell, a kind of spiral snail. See supra.] (Zoöl.) A genus of marine gasteropodous mollusks, having the external border or lip dilated into a wing.

An engraved illustration of a ridged, spiraled Strombus shell.
Strombus.