| 单词 | shell beach |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshell beach shell beach n. a beach composed wholly or predominantly of seashells; spec. the name of one such on the Channel Island of Herm. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore > spec shingle1513 hard1728 shell beach1835 private beach1859 storm-beach1882 pocket beach1893 1835 H. D. Inglis Channel Islands 323 Herm possesses another attraction,..its shell beach. 1838 Penny Cycl. 11 472/2 What is called ‘the shell beach’ extends from half to three-quarters of a mile along the shore, and is composed of small perfect shells and fragments of larger ones, without any intermixture..of pebbles or sand. 1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist 144 The shells which are accumulated as shell-beaches have come from animals which lived in quantity at depths of ten or twenty fathoms. 1964 H. Myhill Introd. Channel Islands v. 114 It is possibly the situation of this beach..which has led to the accumulation there of countless thousands of shells of great variety. There are said to be over five hundred distinct species represented, and they have given it the name of the Shell Beach. < as lemmas |
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