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cockle

[kok-uhl] / ˈkɒk əl /
NOUN
shell
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Scallop on a cauliflower purée bed and cockle popcorn and chorizo crumb.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 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

“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

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

It does not take one of the whelk family long to bore a hole in the centre of the cockle shell.

From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Moss, E. G. B.




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