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cockle

[kok-uhl] / ˈkɒk əl /
NOUN
shell
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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

She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.

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

Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017

It seemed as if there were to be no longer a native idiom, and the good grain was choked up by the intruding cockle which flourished by its side.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac




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