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单词 pelican's foot shell
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Definition of pelican's foot shell in English:

pelican's foot shell

noun
  • A burrowing European mollusc that has a spiral shell with a flared lip that extends into several points.

    Aporrhais pespelecani, family Aporrhaidae, class Gastropoda

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only seven known species of the Pelican's Foot shell have been found, some of which are from the deep sea and rare.
    • He has made various recent acquisitions of curios like a marble sculpture in the shape of a pelican's foot shell, from around 400 B.C., paper thin so that light shines through it, and a pair of larger-than-life eyes with bronze eyelids, monumentally surreal.
 
 

Definition of pelican's foot shell in US English:

pelican's foot shell

noun
  • A burrowing European mollusk that has a spiral shell with a flared lip that extends into several points.

    Aporrhais pespelecani, family Aporrhaidae, class Gastropoda

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only seven known species of the Pelican's Foot shell have been found, some of which are from the deep sea and rare.
    • He has made various recent acquisitions of curios like a marble sculpture in the shape of a pelican's foot shell, from around 400 B.C., paper thin so that light shines through it, and a pair of larger-than-life eyes with bronze eyelids, monumentally surreal.
 
 
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