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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As if it were something cumulative that accrued around me, like the hardening shell of a crustacean .
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I bite into the succulent, still-warm-from-the-grill crustacean whose spice factor is near seismic.
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It seemed surprised when the crustacean raised its claws and valiantly fought back.
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One has elongated jaws for picking between the coral stems, another may specialise in cropping a particular kind of small crustacean .
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The vector of the parasitic worm is a tiny crustacean , Cyclops.
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These fish have developed remarkably tough gullets due to the high proportion of fresh water crustacean in their diet.
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This is a brown crustacean , half the size of the end of a pencil, that is extremely difficult to eradicate.
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Today there are about 35,000 species of crustacean - four times as many as there are of birds.