scallop shell
Bivalve's ridged covering
A scallop shell is the fan-shaped, ridged shell of a scallop—a bivalve mollusk.
The distinctive radiating ribs and curved form have made it an enduring decorative motif in architecture, art, and heraldry.
The scallop shell is the traditional emblem of St.
James and of pilgrims to his shrine at Santiago de Compostela: Pilgrims wore scallop shells on their cloaks.
- bivalveTwo-shelled mollusk
- molluskSoft-bodied invertebrate, often shelled
- sea creatureOcean-inhabiting organism
- flutedHaving parallel grooves
- Camino de SantiagoSpanish pilgrimage trail
edge · Botticelli · pilgrimage · Saint James · heraldry · calcium carbonate · sea · Renaissance art · filter feeder · apostle · ridges · fan · seafood · baptismal font · pearl · rough · clam · tide
- bivalve shells
- shell-shaped thingsconch, nautilus, whelk, cowrie, abalone
- beachcombingshells, driftwood, sea glass, sand dollar, shark tooth
- shellsseashells, sea shells, clam, oyster, mussel
- VenusVenus, Aphrodite, Venus de Milo, morning star, evening star
- pilgrimagepilgrim, pilgrims, hajj, pilgrimage routes, Mecca
scallop shellspiral shell
Coiled mollusk covering
nautilus shell · snail shell · conch shell · cone shell · abalone shell
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