conch

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Some of the docs suggest "xonsh" is pronounced "conch".

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Quick take

any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip

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noun

any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for conch.

noun

any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip

Example sentences

Some of the docs suggest "xonsh" is pronounced "conch".

I'd never heard of conch, thanks loads for the reference; really useful.

Good to see competition in this area with sh, bash, zsh, fish, conch and many others.

At one point, I had to implement a "Lord of the Flies" style conch system to make discussions bearable.

CoCs are an elaborate legalistic version of a conch shell.

But what might be helpful is a shell script "conchrun" that will run a command if the conch can be secured, and then releases the conch once the command exits.

We are trapped inside a terrible, gigantic conch, which resonates with the frequency of scandals and sound-bytes and dampens the sounds of thoughtful debate.

You might consider variants that use a conch piercing or a stretched earlobe piercing instead - I'm pretty sure, among the earring wearers of the affluent world, far more have stretched earlobes than have unpierced earlobes, and probably also more have conch piercings.