Color Names

Scallop Shell

Inside a delicate fan of mother-of-pearl, a beachcomber's treasure.

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Scallop Shell is a pale grey, close to beige.

It can be described as pale, delicate and faded.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Scallop Shell

Scallop

Scallop is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve molluscs in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, this common name is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.

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Rheumaptera undulata

Rheumaptera undulata or Hydria undulata, the scallop shell, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in most of the Palearctic realm and North America.

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scallop shell

Noun

  1. Any member of certain species of genus Rheumaptera of moths.
  2. A pilgrim's shell.
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