thin-shelled

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thin-shelled - of animals or plants that have a thin shell

shelled - of animals or fruits that have a shell

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His Meiso No Mori Municipal Funeral Hall is a thin-shelled concrete canopy that exquisitely blends with the undulating hills behind it.

Religiosity of Japanese aesthetics

lamellosa outside the geographic range of the shell-breaking crab Cancer productus, the thin-shelled lamellose phenotype persists in a wide range of habitats--including protected shores--that would normally only have the thick-shelled, smooth form (ARP, pers.

Lamellose Axial Shell Sculpture Reduces Gastropod Vulnerability to Sea Star Predation

The Department of Agriculture (DA) earlier said that an infected bird may exhibit several signs, including respiratory signs (gasping, coughing), nervous signs (depression, inappetence, muscular tremors, drooping wings, twisting of head and neck, circling, complete paralysis), swelling of the tissues around the eyes and neck, greenish, watery diarrhea, misshapen, rough- or thin-shelled eggs and reduced egg production.

Sudden death of chickens linked to Newcastle Disease?

Several approaches to obtain thin-shelled nanocapsules have been investigated.

Thin-Shelled PEGylated Perfluorooctyl Bromide Nanocapsules for Tumor-Targeted Ultrasound Contrast Agent

Therefore, more moisture loss from thin-shelled eggs probably resulted in more quality deterioration for table eggs [3].

Determination of the quality of stripe-marked and cracked eggs during storage

Thin-shelled bivalves are dominant; most of them very fragmented.

Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a sand-dominated coastal system of the Upper Miocene of eastern Guadalquivir Basin (south Spain): fossil assemblages, ichnology and taphonomy

avellana, has pointed, thin-shelled nuts and is more tender.

Growing nut trees, in a nutshell: nut trees fulfill multiple roles on the homestead, from a tasty food source to a shady spot for an afternoon nap

They also noted particularly heavy predation on thin-shelled mussels (like P.

Impact of drought on predation of a state-threatened mussel, Potamilus amphichaenus

The main factors causing "imperfect shell development" (ISD) in thin-shelled walnut.

DETERMINATION OF RELATIONSHIPS AMONG KERNEL PERCENTAGE AND YIELD CHARACTERISTICS IN SOME TURKISH WALNUT GENOTYPES BY CORRELATION AND PATH ANALYSIS

Carson reported that birds ingesting DDT tended to lay thin-shelled eggs which would in turn break prematurely in the nest, resulting in marked population declines.

Dear EarthTalk: I understand there is good news about the recovery of bird species like the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle and others owed to the 1972 ban on DDT

Eggs (as a single word) are simply the oval, thin-shelled reproductive bodies of birds, especially those of a hen, used as food.