scallop-shell
scallop-shell, used as a measure, Xanth. 3 (pl.), Hp. Mul. 1.34, Str. 17.3.11.
II
= foreg., Hsch. (pl.).
The corpus record
χηρᾰμύς
cheramus · ἡ
scallop-shell
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.