>"Shagreen" is:
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>(1) shark leather, which is rather rough
>or
>(2) "an untanned leather covered with small round granulations and
>usually dyed green"
>
>Does this make sense in your original context?

That's it. The granulations on shells  are often elongated  and tend
to be somewhat iregular; they are not normallly aligned in rows.
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