I am an abandoned limestone home cast up by the sea, and though I have no tongue or lungs, people hold me to their ears to hear the summer ocean roar. What am I?
A seashell
A seashell is the discarded exoskeleton of a marine mollusk, which produces an ocean-like resonance when held near an ear.
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