"shell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Most reptiles lay eggs with leathery shells, but a few types bear live young.
- It is a nut, and contains a single seed (rarely two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell.
- Eggs laid by snakes generally have leathery shells which often adhere to one another.
- It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.
- Stinking yolk oozed across the dark stone as he broke the thick, leathery shells.
- The round fruit is light yellow to red in colour, around 2-4 cm in size, and has a leathery shell.
- The female makes 4-12 eggs, 42-47 mm long and 18-22 mm wide with a leathery shell.
- The patches of skin had been tanned to a hard leathery shell.
- Baby snakes generally hatch from eggs with tough, leathery shells.
- Unlike frogs, sea turtle eggs have tough, leathery shells which allow them to survive on land without drying out.
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