The word "conch" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is mainly used to refer to a variety of marine snails, especially those with shells in the family Strombidae, or a shell of one of these snails. For example, you could use the sentence, "We collected a few conch shells from the shore during our beach outing."
Priests at the Yakuo-in temple, which is situated on the mountain, create a mystical soundscape as they blow conch shells and perform prayers for Geikosai – the festival to welcome the light.
Is the conch shell with a rudder silently signaling a return to Africa?
That said, lessons were interspersed with good lunches at anchor, snorkelling and swimming off the boat, breaks on silky white beaches and motoring ashore by dinghy to fine beachside restaurants for conch fritters, mahi mahi, and mango salsa in the evenings.
One, with its interior spaces arranged in concentric circles and connected by a spiralling staircase, brings to mind a giant exploded conch shell.But shells are all that remain.
The road is lined with stalls selling food, including stews made from the flesh of the conch after which the village is named.
Bags of live conch are being kept fresh, just under the water, but a boy says that they have been over-harvested here to the point of extinction.
They made instruments of anything that came to hand: conch-shells, wooden boxes, metal cups.
Some, such as the large cymbals, stem from China, while others (the majority), such as the conch-shell trumpet and handbells, can be traced to Indian influence and are found as instruments of Buddhist worship as far away as Japan.
He stood on the last summit ridge and blew his traditional Hora conch-shell trumpet to the wilds, signifying the teachings of Buddha and the summoning of nature's deities.
Fourteen figures were carved out of the wood, possibly by Luis de Arciniega, in a style that is High Renaissance in its balance, strength, and stability; its heavily robed figures emerge from niches with conch-shell arches that appear to be sunburst haloes behind the figures' heads.
The names of different quarters of the city—such as Kumartuli (the potters' district) and Sankaripara (the conch-shell workers' district)—still indicate the various occupational castes of the people who became residents of the growing metropolis.
