Conchy vs. Conch — What's the Difference?

Conchy was an American comic strip that ran from March 2, 1970 to February 5, 1977 (daily) and March 13, 1977 (Sunday). Set on a desert island with a group of beachcombers as the main characters, the strip addressed serious issues of its time.

Conch () is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point at both ends).

(slang) A conscientious objector.

Any of various tropical marine gastropod mollusks chiefly of the family Strombidae, having edible flesh and a large spiral shell often with a flared lip.

The shell of one of these gastropod mollusks, used as an ornament, in making cameos, or as a horn.

(Anatomy) See concha.

A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.

The shell of this sea animal.

A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.

(architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.

Synonym of concher

To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.

A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. Strombus gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo and cameo conch.

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; - so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

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