"shell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The word snail is given to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough for the animal can retract inside it.
- Spirorbis is a genus of very small (2-5mm) polychaete worms, usually with a white coiled shell.
- These snails all have a coiled shell present in their larval stage.
- According to S. J. Gould's interpretation of Dollo's law, it would not be possible to regain a coiled shell after the coiling has been lost.
- Tylonautilus has a coiled shell with a subquadrate whorl section, evolutely coiled with all whorls showing.
- The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell.
- The word is also applied to the depressed central area on the planispiral coiled shells of Nautilus species and fossil ammonites.
- However, like all the snails in the subfamily Planobinae, this snail carries its coiled shell upside down, and thus the shell appears to be dextral in coiling.
- This coiled shell usually opens on the right-hand side (as viewed with the shell apex pointing upward).
- It was just as the gnome had remembered it: a golden coiled shell, set upright, from the mouth of which several interwoven wooden tentacles projected forward, forming a pointed bow.
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