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crustacean
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  • Instantly, he slowed and saw her up ahead, kneeling on a wide sandbar, apparently fascinated by some small crustacean.  (source)
    crustacean = a sea animal with a hard shell and many legs
  • A very rare Cambrian crustacean, she explained.†  (source)
  • And like the lobster, the turtle was consumed in seconds, but this time it took a shape-shifting that the crustacean hadn't required.†  (source)
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  • The show began with Smithsonian Castle, its basement science labs, corridors lined with exhibits, a salon full of mollusks, scientists who called themselves "the curators of crustaceans," and even an old photo of the castle's two most popular residents—a pair of now-deceased owls named Diffusion and Increase.†  (source)
  • The demonic crustacean lunged at me.†  (source)
  • "Well, said the Professor, with the most imperturbable tranquillity, "it is the shell of a crustaceous animal of the extinct order of the trilobites; nothing more, I assure you."†  (source)
  • Terns bobbed at the sand near the water's edge, their long strawlike legs moving quickly as they searched for tiny crustaceans.†  (source)
  • He claimed that the predominant taste of any crustacean or mollusk was that of its alimentary tract.†  (source)
  • The crowning achievement was my mother's appearance at the Galle Face Dance as a lobster—the outfit bright red and covered with crustaceans and claws which grew out of her shoulder blades and seemed to move of their own accord.†  (source)
  • He's on crustacean restriction, from here on out.†  (source)
  • Something reptilian he felt here, something that had endured by immobility, a kind of life out of reach, like the crustaceans in their armour.†  (source)
  • I am lower than a crustacean.†  (source)
  • "Some sharks can process the shells of crustaceans like this, some can't," Georgia said, now dangling the lobster such that its claw was lazily touching the surface.†  (source)
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