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noun

Concha n.

(Arch.) The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.

(Anat.) The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

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Etymology of 'Concha'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Concha" Quotes from Famous Books

... concha) and external meatus (passage to the tympanum) of the outer ear are developed in a very simple fashion from the skin that borders the external aperture of the first gill-cleft. The shell rises in the shape of a circular fold of the skin, in which cartilage and muscles are afterwards formed ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel

... dulcior mihi cycnis, agna Galaesi mollior Phalantini, concha Lucrini delicatior stagni, cui nec lapillos praeferas Erythraeos nec modo politum pecudis Indicae dentem nivesque primas liliumque non tactum; quae crine vicit Baetici gregis vellus Rhenique nodos aureamque nitellam; fragravit ore quod rosarium Paesti, ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... used in the manufacture of buttons, studs, card counters, etc., is the mother of pearl, the Concha margaritifera of naturalists. Five kinds of shell are employed:—First. The Buffalo Shell, so named because it arrived packed in buffalo skins; it comes chiefly from Panama, is the smallest and commonest, ...

— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney

Words linked to "Concha" : complex body part, anatomy, nasal concha, anatomical structure