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shellheap

noun

Etymology

From shell + heap.

  1. derived from *koupos✻
  2. inherited from *haupaz✻
  3. inherited from *haup✻
  4. inherited from hēap
  5. inherited from hepe
  6. compounded as shellheap — “shell + heap”

Definitions

  1. A prehistoric accumulation of shells, indicating the former presence of a community of…

    A prehistoric accumulation of shells, indicating the former presence of a community of people who ate shellfish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shellheap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA