How To Use Whelk In A Sentence
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Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea shores.
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Since both seastars and whelks feed most intensively on barnacles and mussels, they clearly co-occupy the predator guild in this community.
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Inside, the shells are emptied or crammed full of the creatures that created them: waved whelk and wentletraps, oysters and scallops, some of them dead, others trying to re-water themselves or dry out a bit in the sand.
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Maram cracked opened a whelk with a sudden slap of a rock.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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It is probably Busycon sinistrum, the lightning whelk, although I may be mistaken.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The fact he could be won round to this cranky idea demonstrates that he shouldn't be trusted in charge of a whelk stall, let alone the national economy.
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Discover the survival techniques of whelks, worms, wentletraps, and other marine creatures.
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Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores.
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Yet other creatures — whelks, cuttlefishes, oysters, snails, and all their tribe (“Mollusca”) — resemble one another in the same way, but differ from both
Essays
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Also, although they are very similar, the egg strand is from a channeled whelk.
Too drunk to get drunk: an amateur naturalist reports
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Abalone does not have a blood-clotting mechanism, and even if slightly damaged it will continue to bleed until found by scavenging whelks.
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People forget that Glasgow is by the sea, but I love restaurants that make something of that closeness, bringing mussels and whelks and Firth of Clyde-reared cod onto the menu.
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Algal turfs are grown on screens and then fed to herbivores such as whelk, parrotfish, and crab.
Chapter 3
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Starved whelks were provided with empty mussel shells so that sun-exposure was similar for both treatment groups.
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This issue contains articles on the use of dog whelks (Nucella lapillus) to produce purple dye, neolithic ornaments made from shells of the spiny oyster Spondylus gaederopus, the clausiliid snail Papillifera papillaris (by yours truly), an obituary for Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006) and other useful bits of information on mollusks and archaeology.
Archive 2006-04-01
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Meanwhile Andrew lived simply on a diet of mussels and whelks and the occasional boiled crab that bubbled in the pot.
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At Strawberry Hill, whelks had higher body temperatures and higher Hsp 70 pools than those at Boiler Bay.
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Barnacles are crustaceans like crabs and shrimps but, because of their appearance, until the 19th century they were thought to be molluscs like limpets and whelks.
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Sea urchins Arbacia dufresnii are abundant in the marine area, as are whelks Argobuccinun sp., chitons, starfishes, sea anemones, bryzoans, barnacles, slipper limpets, nudibranchs and sponges.
Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
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For example, barnacles (whelk prey) may be more susceptible to short-term food deprivation than mussels (sea star prey) because of their small size.
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The whelk-enclosure experiment demonstrated that the predatory whelk affected not only survivorship but also growth rate of the clam.
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Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores.
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Densities of whelks were measured three times during each summer at all sites in these uncaged quadrats and average predator abundance was analyzed using analysis of variance.
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Most of the shellfish remains in the Florida coast middens were oyster shells while shells of clams, knobbed whelks and periwinkles were present in lesser amounts.
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McWilliam was born in Edinburgh, a city that was the wellspring of all her best qualities (her uncomplaining Protestantism, her whelk-eating thriftiness) and her worst (no one is harder on Candia than Candia).
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam
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Black drink was ladled, and we each accepted the shell cup—cut from a huge whelk—and drank.
Fire The Sky
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Meanwhile Andrew lived simply on a diet of mussels and whelks and the occasional boiled crab that bubbled in the pot.
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Entering the water from the shore, the first animal we spot may well be a mollusc such as a limpet or dog-whelk.
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Overall, mussels, barnacles and whelks all had higher metabolic activities at SH than BB, whereas there was no difference in metabolic activity for sea stars.
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On her chest rested a whelk-shell gorget carved in the rattlesnake design.
Fire The Sky
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Who knows medicine treats the prescription of whelk excuse me?
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Most of the shellfish remains in the Florida coast middens were oyster shells while shells of clams, knobbed whelks and periwinkles were present in lesser amounts.
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Michael reached into his satchel again and drew out the largest of the knobbed whelks his brother had given him.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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The whelks may show frequency independent selection, choosing their favourite food regardless of that species' relative abundance. 2.
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Does the person of long - term long whelk use face of weak acidity bath?
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Also in my study, fences alone in the uncaged plots did not seem to affect major predators of the clam such as crabs and whelks because I observed them inside the fences as often as outside during the experimental period.
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For main, if your'e feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
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Marine gastropods (whelks and periwinkles) suffer sex determination defects due to tributyltin leaching from antifouling paints on ships' hulls.
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Zach found that crows would only accept ‘large’ whelks, where large whelks had an average weight of 8.08 grams.
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Why is present government policy ... now determined by people who would have serious trouble managing a whelk stall?
April 15th, 2009
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The dog-whelk's radula drills into other animals such as barnacles, while the limpet's is used to rasp algae off rock surfaces.
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There on the windowsill in his room were three shells, knobbed whelks, mementos of his older brother, who had been a fisherman.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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The bare beauty of the channelled whelk tells me that one answer, and perhaps a first step, is in simplification of life, in cutting out some of the distractions.
Monday Musing
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He cringed to hear it—its hull grinding the calices of finger corals and the tiny tubes of pipe organ corals, tearing the flower and fern shapes of soft corals, and damaging shells too: punching holes in olives and murexes and spiny whelks, in Hydatina physis and Turris babylonia.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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Predatory snails, including Oyster Drills, whelks, sponges, especially the Boring Sponges, and fish all find oysters a tasty treat.
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Maram cracked opened a whelk with a sudden slap of a rock.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The issues that I would like to focus on are the geoducks and whelks to start off with, and cockles and pipi.
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It is a fantastic place, with extremely tasty whelks.
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So the 10m ropes provide an ideal home where they can remain suspended above the seabed and out of reach of starfish, crabs, whelks and other predators.
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It appears to be cut from a large bivalve and does not have the twisted shape of a whelk or conch columella.
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Sometimes I work my way out as far as the boat channel, with nothing more to show for my labors than a not-quite-perfect whelk shell.
Corinne Demas: An Author's Adventures In Clamming
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Only the hermit crab, as far as I can recall, searches for empty shells, of whelks or periwinkles, or indeed any other hollow object and crawls inside, to serve as shelter and protection of the body.
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Set aside for the moment the friendly relationship with Respect that preceded the courtroom farce of Labour's candidate selection process, put temporarily from your mind some of his business connections, banish momentarily concerns that he's too matey by half with the Tower Hamlets religious right, and subject him to the basic whelk stall test.
Tower Hamlets: ineptitude and nastiness marr Lutfur Rahman campaign
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Does someone say serious whelk contains syrup fruit to also cannot eat more repeatedly?
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So I piled Darren and Rob into the car and we headed down to Margate for some whelks and jellied eels.
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Among the Barrier Islands along the Gulf Coast in Florida, Sanibel Island is considered one of the best shelling destinations in the world -- with beaches abound with conch, scallops and lightning whelk seashells.
America's Island Paradises
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Low tide air temperature is probably less of a factor for sea stars than for whelks, as sea stars can avoid locations where body temperatures are elevated, whereas whelk body temperatures are closely related to air temperatures.
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Think of molluscs and chances are it is shellfish such as limpets, whelks, scallops and mussels that spring to mind.
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Our examples are taken from recent investigations of two key components of rocky intertidal communities, mussels and whelks.
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Luckily there is a produce stall just a few steps further, where you get a few handfuls of wild roquette, sensing that the arugula's peppery bite will work wonders with the plump whelks.
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Whelks are widely distributed, but are commercially exploited in only some regions.
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I know how to eat everything you can gather on its rocky coast and bone-white beaches: razor shells, cockles, mussels, whelks, carrageen seaweed, winkles, crabs (velvet and red), conger eel, mackerel.
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Think of molluscs and chances are it is shellfish such as limpets, whelks, scallops and mussels that spring to mind.
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The shellfish, especially the oysters and the whelks are just the best.
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Anyway, recently the children asked to try some whelks and winkles, which were so vinegary they'd lost all their flavour, and then Megan asked to try the crab.
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For main, if your feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
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The Big Question to emerge so far: Is Rupert Murdoch a fit and proper person to run a whelk stall?" the conservative political commentator Iain Dale wrote in a Twitter post.
Scandal's Latest Twists Seem Tabloid-Made
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These results were obtained from experiments in the lower mid zone at each site and exposure, in which shelter and food availability (mussels, M. trossulus) for the whelks were manipulated.
