shell-like

Having a similar shape to a seashell.

Adjective

  1. Having a similar shape to a seashell.
  2. Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.
    • "Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a...

Origin

From shell + -like.

Forms

more shell-like most shell-like shelllike

Noun

  1. The ear.
    • Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?

Forms

shell-likes shelllike