stromatiform (stromatiform)

[ IMG:content-2293.png:[blocks in formation] stromatoporoid (stro-ma-top'ō-roid), a. and [ [ and especially of the ge nus Strombus; a wings hell; a fountain-shell. The best-known stromb is S. gigas, whose delicate pink shell used for cameo-cutting, and also ground up in the manufacture of some fine kinds of porcelain, for which purposes it is said that 300,000 were imported into England in one year from the Bahamas. Another well-known species is S. pugil is, so called from the red, as if bloody, mouth. See also cut under wing-shell. A Wing-shell or Stromb (Strombus pugil is).