🐚 Spiral Shell

A seashell, as found at the beach. Generally depicted as an empty, spiraling, white seashell, as grown by a sea snail or home to a hermit crab. Positioned at various angles across platforms. Often used for various content concerning beaches, ocean and ocean life, and summer fun. Apple’s design previously resembled a clam shell, Microsoft’s a snail shell. Google’s was previously blue.

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🐚 Spiral Shell

Also known as: Beach, Seashell, Shell

Unicode: U+1F41A

Image Variants

Spiral Shell 3D

3D

Spiral Shell Color

Color

Spiral Shell Flat

Flat

Spiral Shell High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

shellspiral

Shortcodes

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Additional Information

Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:

A seashell found at the beach. It has a spiral shape, and may become home to a hermit crab. Spiral Shell was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 http://emojipedia.org/spiral-shell/

Adjectives:
  • In the shape of a coil
  • In the shape of a helix.
  • In the shape of a coil.
  • In the shape of a helix
Verbs:
  • To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
  • Form a spiral
Nouns:
  • The sea, the world ocean, or simply the ocean, is the connected body of salty water that covers 70.8% of the Earth's surface.
  • A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
  • A sea is a large body of saline water usually connected with an ocean.
  • A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
  • The body of water covering most of Earth
  • A body of salt water that is smaller than an ocean and generally in proximity to a continent.
  • Body of water.
  • Earth's interconnected water system
  • A lat, narrow strip of sand, gravel or pebbles along the shoreline of a body of water (ocean, river, lake).
  • An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
  • A beach is a landform along the coast of an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
  • The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.