"shell" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The bony shell was completely hollow.
- Without it, he was just a sick old man with a scrawny neck and ears that protruded from the bony shell of his skull.
- Was the antique firearm powerful enough to penetrate the turtle's bony shell?
- The organ most at risk is the brain, being enclosed within a rigid bony shell.
- Virtually all turtles have a covering of scutes, or modified scales, over the bony shell.
- In many turtle species, the bony shell is in turn plated over with tough fingernail-like structures called scutes.
- The man's body was a bony shell inside rumpled clothing that hung on him like a disorderly collection of sacks.
- It is distinguished from other sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell.
- It can easily be differentiated from other sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell.
- Mandibular molars of manatees develop separately from the jaw and are encased in a bony shell separated by soft tissue.
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