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shellfish

seashell; shell

Word usually written using kana alone

Japanese Babylon (Babylonia japonica); Japanese ivory shell

Abbreviation

spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese Babylon shell)

seashell; shell

shell heap; shell mound; kitchen midden

shellfish

adductor muscle

Food, cooking

adductor muscle of a bivalve (e.g. scallop, etc.)

to blow a conch; to blow a trumpet shell; to blow the war horn

kai-awase; Heian-period shell-matching game

Historical term

kai-awase; Heian-period shell comparison game

Colloquial; Vulgar expression or word

tribadism; tribbing

shellwork

radish sprout

shellfish meat

kanji "shell" radical at left

shellfish poison

fritillary (Fritillaria verticillata var. thunbergii)

shellfish baked in the shell

abalone, scallops, etc. simmered in the shell

Colloquial

shoulder blade; scapula

Tyrian purple; royal purple

pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)

mother-of-pearl button

Tyrian purple

shell ladle

spinning top (traditionally made of Japanese Babylon shell)

white radish sprouts; daikon sprouts

west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore