strombus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑm.bəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɑm.bəs/

strombus (plural strombuses or strombi)

1. (zoology) Any conch of the genus Strombus. Most subspecies are known as forms of fighting conchs.

• “strombus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• substorm

From Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstrom.bus/, [ˈs̠t̪rɔmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstrom.bus/, [ˈst̪rɔmbus]

strombus m (genitive strombī); second declension

1. A kind of spiral snail

Second-declension noun.

• “strombus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• strombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.