Sentence examples for upper shell from inspiring English sources

The upper shell is brown, and the neck and legs are reddish.

The upper shell is called a carapace, and the lower a plastron.

Their upper shell is oval, dull in colour, and usually about 8 13 cm (3 5 inches) long.

Inside the upper shell is a sandwich of foam and Thinsulate, a synthetic material, for insulation, and a knit lining.

When young it has three longitudinal ridges on the upper shell; these become worn down with time.

This theory holds that the Earth's upper shell, or lithosphere, consists of nearly a dozen large, quasi-stable slabs called plates.

#3 To serve, discard the upper shells of the mussels.

To answer that question, Mr. de Gier and Dr. Fransen measured and compared a number of their anatomical features, including their legs, mouthparts and carapace (the hard upper body shell).

In terms of trophic/life-habit groups, the total succession shows an increase of infaunal suspension-feeder species' richness from the lowest (C1) to the upper (C4) shell bed, whereas epifaunal taxa decrease in richness.

In the third stage, the upper skirt (shell) starts to retract until it's concealed in the back, and in the fourth stage, the dress returns back to its original state.

The 'tight' pentagon is too far apart from the Na+ ion (≈6.5 Å) to be considered part of its (upper) hydration shell.