different between topshell vs trochus

English

Alternative forms

• top shells

Etymology

top +? shell

Noun

topshell (plural topshells)

1. A shell shaped like a toy top, found principally in the family Trochidae of marine gastropod mollusks or top snails.

Anagrams

• hot spell

English

Etymology

From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (trokhós, “wheel”).

Noun

trochus (plural trochuses or trochi)

1. (malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.

Hyponyms

• topshell

References

• Trochus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trochus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Trochus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• crouths

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (trokhós, “wheel”).

Noun

trochus m (genitive troch?); second declension

1. iron hoop

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Trochus

References

• trochus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trochus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trochus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• trochus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• trochus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trochus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• trochus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin