"beautiful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Our quarry was the Atlantic blue crab - Callinectes sapidus to marine biologists, which means "savory beautiful swimmer" in Latin.
- In the winter months, when the big hard-shells - scientific name Callinectes sapidus, which means beautiful swimmer - are not available locally, the leading purveyors fly them in from ports in the South.
- He was a young hellion - handsome as be damned, a beautiful swimmer and a scratch golfer, with an open MG and a speedboat and all the trimmings.
- In Greek, callinectes means beautiful swimmer (which this crab is), and sapidus means savory in Latin.
- Summer along the Hudson means crabs, and the crab of choice is the blue claw - callinectes sapidus, "the beautiful swimmers" or "savory swimmers."
- In the imaginative film about his life, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," he is strolling by a pool on the grounds of the Playboy mansion when a beautiful naked swimmer recognizes him.
- The title and theme of the film were inspired by the Latin name for the Chesapeake Bay's indigenous Maryland blue crab - Callinectes sapidus - Callinectes translates as "beautiful swimmers."
- The famous bay oysters are replaced with the beautiful swimmer, the blue crab.
- As its scientific name Callinectes sapidus (delicious beautiful swimmer) suggests, the blue crab is a tasty creature, often winding up in delicacies like Maryland crab cakes, crab-and-avocado salads and "she-crab soup."
- Where Godzilla would have stomped, Mr. Benchley's great white shark chomped - on beautiful swimmers, depraved villains, obsessed shark hunters, even boats.
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