cockle

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She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017

Gangmaster Lin Liang Ren was jailed for 14 years in 2006 after being found guilty of manslaughter and helping the cockle pickers break immigration laws.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2015

And the shell being something like that of a cockle, it sticks to the rocks, just as limpets do.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us