Definition of Wedge-shell

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Wedge-shell
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
  

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wedge-shell

wedge-shell
wedge-tailed \wedge"-tailed"\ (?), a. (zo?l.) having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. see illust. of wood hoopoe, under wood.