cockle
Example Sentences
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Scallop on a cauliflower purée bed and cockle popcorn and chorizo crumb.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023
“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger 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
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
If you lift up a broken or injured cockle, some will cling to it with their rasp-like tongues till they are lifted out of the water.
From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Moss, E. G. B.
