mollusc shell

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mollusc
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmɒl.əsk/us
/ˈmɑː.ləsk/
any animal that has a soft body, no spine, and is often covered with a shell. Many molluscs live ...
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shell
noun
uk
/ʃel/us
/ʃel/
the hard outer covering of something, especially nuts, eggs, and ...
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Fragments ofmolluscshelland oolites can be found.
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The male prepares a nest in a crevice, amolluscshellor even a discarded bottle or can.
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It is a vestige of the ancestralmolluscshell, which was external.
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A variety of methods are used to create imitation pearls from starting materials that include glass, plastic, and actualmolluscshell.
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The vane of the gladius (the rigid internal remnants of themolluscshell) is oval-shaped and pointed at both ends (lanceolate).
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It favours areas with a high concentration of calcium carbonate provided bymolluscshellfragments, barnacle plates, foraminifera and other invertebrate debris.
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Mollusc shells, including those of cowries, were used as a kind of money (shell money) in several preindustrial societies.
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It is sometimes free-living, growing on loose bits of coral, pebbles or mollusc shells.
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It is a society devoted to malacology (the study of molluscs) as well as conchology (the study of mollusc shells).
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It includes the study of land and freshwater mollusc shells as well as seashells and extends to the study of a gastropod's operculum.
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It grows on soft sediments or anchors itself to rocks, mollusc shells, jetties, pontoons or other solid surfaces.
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The collection includes over 16,000 worldwide species of mollusc shells, from marine, terretrial and freshwater habitats.
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It is found in the sublittoral zone on rocks, mollusc shells, pilings, docks and other man-made structures and even in polluted waters.
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For that often mollusc shells, foraminifera or pollen are used.
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The particles comprising a beach are occasionally biological in origin, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae.
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In mollusc shells, these minerals are carried to the site of mineralization in vesicles within specialized cells.
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Many fossils have been recovered from it, including vertebrae of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, and mollusc shells.
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While most mollusc shells are composed mainly of aragonite, those gastropods that lay eggs with a hard shell use calcite (sometimes with traces of aragonite) to construct the eggshells.
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