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crustacean
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  • A very rare Cambrian crustacean, she explained.†  (source)
  • He speared each tiny crustacean on the point of his fork and studied it appreciatively before sucking it off the tines with obscene relish.†  (source)
  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • Terns bobbed at the sand near the water's edge, their long strawlike legs moving quickly as they searched for tiny crustaceans.†  (source)
  • I am lower than a crustacean.†  (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)
  • This was just where the error was; it was that I had to feel bad about the back shell of the car and those crustacean eyes that were dragging by the wires, and it wasn't so much the accident as my failure to care as I should that he minded.†  (source)
  • The mammals disappear, then the birds vanish, then the reptiles of the secondary period, and finally the fish, the crustaceans, molluscs, and articulated beings.†  (source)
  • Captain Nemo alerted his companion to this hideous crustacean, which a swing of the rifle butt quickly brought down, and I watched the monster's horrible legs writhing in dreadful convulsions.†  (source)
  • The trails were cluttered with algae and fucus plants, hosts of crustaceans swarming among them.†  (source)
  • He claimed that the predominant taste of any crustacean or mollusk was that of its alimentary tract.†  (source)
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