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cockle

[kok-uhl] / ˈkɒk əl /
NOUN
shell
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“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

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

More recently, treating it using a combination of compost, limestone and cockle shells has been more effective.

From BBC • May 2, 2018

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

Naturalists call them the nest of the cockle.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams