cockle
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“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
“This tells us that all of those nearly identical cancers came from a single cockle in the past,” Metzger said.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
The bay, where 23 Chinese cockle pickers died in 2004, is notorious for quicksand, fast-rising tides, swirling currents and deep tidal channels.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2021
He was speaking from Rio where he is installing his follow-up work, 10,000 Lives, about the world of the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned on Morecambe Bay in 2004.
From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016
And the shell being something like that of a cockle, it sticks to the rocks, just as limpets do.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us