a. and sb. [f. STROMB + -OID. Cf. F. stromboïde.] a. adj. Resembling or related to a stromb or strombus. b. sb. A stromb.
a. 1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Stromboides … resembling a Strombus,… stromboid.
b. 1891. Century Dict.
1910. D. W. Thompson, trans. Aristotle’s Hist. Anim., 530 b. This same property is common to all stromboids and to limpets.
