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Word: conch (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to develop the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding; a concher or concher machine.
  • A marine mollusc of the family ''Strombidae'' which lives in its own spiral shell.
  • A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell.
  • The shell of this sea animal.

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Verb:

  • To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
  • To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

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