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Definition of carpet shell in English: carpet shellnoun A burrowing bivalve mollusc of temperate and warm seas, with concentric growth rings and irregular coloured markings. Genus Venerupis, family Veneriidae Example sentencesExamples - Fauna and fauna include live cockles, trough shells, carpet shells and tellins.
- They aren't as salty and assertive as, say, vongole veraci, or carpet shell clams, or the littleneck clams that are so common here on the East Coast of the U.S.
- Nowadays, oyster and mussel farmers have been joined by farmers of carpet shell clams.
- The high productivity of the wetlands supports a profitable marine population including carpet shells, gilthead and eels.
- Look for the shells of common species such as cockles, trough shells, sand gapers, carpet shells, razor shells, striped Venus and thin tellins.
Definition of carpet shell in US English: carpet shellnoun A burrowing bivalve mollusk of temperate and warm seas, with concentric growth rings and irregular colored markings. Genus Venerupis, family Veneriidae Example sentencesExamples - Look for the shells of common species such as cockles, trough shells, sand gapers, carpet shells, razor shells, striped Venus and thin tellins.
- They aren't as salty and assertive as, say, vongole veraci, or carpet shell clams, or the littleneck clams that are so common here on the East Coast of the U.S.
- Fauna and fauna include live cockles, trough shells, carpet shells and tellins.
- The high productivity of the wetlands supports a profitable marine population including carpet shells, gilthead and eels.
- Nowadays, oyster and mussel farmers have been joined by farmers of carpet shell clams.
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