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Definition of spire shell in English: spire shellnoun A marine or freshwater mollusc with a long conical spiral shell. Hydrobiidae and related families, class Gastropoda Example sentencesExamples - In the sand you can find cone shells, spire shells and flatfish.
- The millions of small black specks that littered the sand were likely to have been tiny laver spire shells.
- An area of mudflat similar to that occupied by a dinghy could hold 40,000 tiny Laver spire shells, 60,000 Corophium shrimps, 50,000 Baltic Tellin shellfish or up to 500 Ragworms.
- He would approach an area of sand on the bottom, wave his hand vigorously to remove the top layers and find these beautiful spire shells.
- One square metre of mud might contain thousands of tiny spire shells.
Definition of spire shell in US English: spire shellnoun A marine or freshwater mollusk with a long conical spiral shell. Hydrobiidae and related families, class Gastropoda Example sentencesExamples - The millions of small black specks that littered the sand were likely to have been tiny laver spire shells.
- He would approach an area of sand on the bottom, wave his hand vigorously to remove the top layers and find these beautiful spire shells.
- In the sand you can find cone shells, spire shells and flatfish.
- One square metre of mud might contain thousands of tiny spire shells.
- An area of mudflat similar to that occupied by a dinghy could hold 40,000 tiny Laver spire shells, 60,000 Corophium shrimps, 50,000 Baltic Tellin shellfish or up to 500 Ragworms.
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