"shell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Priced from $300 to $20,000, the pieces are rolling landscapes of 18-karat gold intertwined with black niobium or iridescent shells and set with gemstones.
- Over 6,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians produced glittering cosmetics from the iridescent shells of beetles as well as finely ground green malachite crystal.
- It revealed a couple of toes, which moved very slowly inside their iridescent shell.
- Scarabs lay about everywhere, as did the iridescent shells of Siamese beetles nearly five inches long.
- The iridescent shell is thin and contains a conspicuous umbilicus.
- Its sexual organs and orifices had closed away beneath its iridescent shell, to keep hold of all that had been spent.
- The mussels were New Zealand green lip: big, soft and in a beautiful iridescent shell.
- It's very pretty to look at, with a brilliant iridescent shell of golden green.
- An abalone, for example, can take simple calcium carbonate, the stuff of chalk, and weave an iridescent yet tough shell.
- The predominantly blue-green iridescent shell of abalone (or paua; genus Haliotis) is one last possible imitation.
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