noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snail mail
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
shell
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Similarly, insects and land snail shells are identified, sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains.
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And when I went to the museum on Gozo I discovered a block with a carved snail shell .
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Taken with other environmental indicators, such as land snail shells and insect remains, they also give information about the prevailing climate.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab.
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We need to accept only that the change in snail shell is a fluke adaptation.
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Caddis houses helped us take the previous step; snail shells will help us take this one.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At different points along a trail the child sees snails-different snails each time.
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If insects, worms and snails could scream, would you still light that bonfire?
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Making a shell is costly for a snail .
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Some of these, such as most small snails and limpets, are quite harmless.
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The snails had vanished, but now some one seemingly had traced a picture of a butterfly in the dirt.
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Unfortunately, the snail spread across the island and caused widespread destruction to crops.