(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:32:22

I"o*qua shell` (?). [From the native name.] Zool.

The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, by the Indians of the west coast of North America.

 

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