Cameos are carved from the pink shells of this snail whose name is from Greek for "shell"
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Hand Carved Shell Cameo | A Brooch Me | Pinterest | Shells, Hands ...  This lovely Sea shell wedding bouquet uses blush pink shells. ... Antique Victorian Carved Shell Cameo Brooch - Apollo, God of Music ... Striking mid-Victorian shell cameo brooch depicting the Greek God Apollo waist ..... Felt snail, pink shell .... turtle, whose shell is simulated by some 28 vividly colored oval-faceted garnets,...
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Animals - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Close relative of the pig, though its name means "river horse" The number of toes .... Armadillo is a small placental mammal that has a bony armor shell, carapace, ..... Pheasant, Golden or ring necked - From Greek, its name means "bird of the ..... Conch sea snail - Cameos are carved from the pink shells of this snail whose...
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1000+ images about Seashells+Carvings+Cameos on Pinterest ...  See more about Seashells, Sea Shells and Shells. ... Seashells+Carvings+Cameos. Follow ... Marble shell | Greek | Classical | The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...... Cominella adspersa, common name - speckled whelk ... African Land Snail ..... Kauai Sunrise Shell Earrings - Gold Filled with Pink Swarovski and Pearls.
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Unique shell brooch related items | Etsy  First Name Names on Etsy are public, but optional. ..... Vintage Sterling Cameo, Carved Shell Cameo, Greek Mythology Cameo, .... sweater guard with silver shells .... Chocolate Brown Shell Pendant / Snail Shell Brooch with crochet bezel [Ltd Ed. 8 .... pink pearl brooch, 5-7mm pink Pearl shell flower brooch,freshwater pearl...
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shell  OTHER NAMES: Shell material used in jewelry and/or to fashion decorative objects is ... as well as being the "rough" from which shell cameos have been fashioned. ... Jewelry: Parts of several shells have been ground to spheres, carved, ..... Pink Queen conch (Strombus gigas Linnaeus, 1758) (width - 22 cm) with tip cut off...
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Limpet - Wikipedia  A limpet is an aquatic snail with a shell that is broadly conical in shape. "Limpet" informally refers to any gastropod whose shell has no obvious coiling, like the coiling which can be seen in the shells of garden snails or winkles.
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jeopardy/2149_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Jon Muir: a lawyer originally from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania ... nudibranch is a snail that, unlike the periwinkle or limpet, lacks one of these | Shell .... BLUE JEAN | Jeans were originally called "waist-high" these, as distinguished from "bib"...
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Nacre  The material comprising mother of pearl is called nacre. ... delicate internal tissues, but is also responsible for shell secretion (in forms that have a shell). ... of solid calcium carbonate used in the construction of the various layers of the shell. ... The nacreous layer (composed mostly of plate-like tablets of aragonite), is shiny,...
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Snail - Unionpedia, the concept map  Beddomeia is a genus of very small freshwater snails that have a gill and an ...... Bythiospeum klemmi is a species of small brackish water snail with an ...... of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. ...... (from the Greek , platy, meaning "flat" and  (root: -), helminth-,...
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Greek Pottery - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Jan 12, 2013 ... Greek pottery was invariably made on the potter's wheel and usually made in .... and Assyrian pottery to produce its own unique Greek version. .... The term refers to objects made of clay that have been fashioned into a desire...
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mantle (secrets shell)  ex: snail, abalone, conch, limpet, nudibranch (no shell) ... Beak-like jaws, secrete paralyzing substance, some have toxic bite. 10 ... The spiraled shell of the chambered nautilus is lined with mother-of-pearl and is perfectly proportioned...
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Snail - Wikipedia  Snail is a common name that is applied most often to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate .... For example, in Indonesia, they are fried as satay, a dish known as sate kakul. ... Snails and slug species that are not normally eaten in certain areas have...
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MARINE INVERTEBRATES  whelka marine snail shown laying its eggs in the photo aboveis a mollusk ... Bivalves are adapted to breathe underwater by using gill mem- .... These mollusks are also referred to as univalves, meaning one shell, .... Like snails, the limpets graze on ... sea hare (Aplysia) are gastropods that either lack shells or have.
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Gastropoda - Wikipedia  The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large ... The class Gastropoda has an extraordinary diversification of habitats. ... periwinkles, whelks, and numerous other sea snails that produce seashells that are ..... Some predatory carnivorous gastropods include, for example: Cone shells,...
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The Chambered Nautilus - Dictionary definition of The Chambered ...  Its subject is the nautilus, a sea creature that lives inside a spiral shell. ... is grounded in the world of mid-nineteenth-century Boston, sometimes called the .... refers to the beautiful and seductive water nymphs of ancient Greek mythology that ... of the nautilus to a ship, although Holmes's choice of words is characterized by...
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Ear-shaped shell, 7 letter, crossword - CrosswordOpener  A source of mother-of-pearl ... Chinese symbol of wealth.  Conch cousin.  Decorative seashell.  Ear shell ... Edible mollusk ... It's called awabi at a sushi bar ... Sea snail.  Sea-ear.  Seafood delicacy.  Seafood order.  Seaweed eater.
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Snails, Welks, Conchs - Gulf Specimen Marine Lab  Class Gastropoda (Snails, Whelks, etc.) ... M-840 MOON SNAIL, Polinices duplicatus, has a smooth rounded shell and a greatly expanded foot. It plows a furrow...
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Venus de Milo: Greek Statue by Alexandros of Antioch  Another Hellenistic Greek marble statue of Aphrodite (1st century BCE), called the ... The stone sculpture was in two main pieces: (1) the upper torso, and (2) the legs, ... Several other sculptural fragments were discovered close by, including a ... the sculpture was carved from essentially two blocks of Parian marble, and is...
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Natural History, Mollusca/Dimyaria - Wikisource, the free online library  Feb 3, 2012 ... The name of this familiar shell-fish is derived from the obvious resemblance ... pearls, or to use the poet's phrase, bacc cochle, shell-berries, which the ... To the latter only his remark on pearls "found up the river" applies. ..... for weeks, and it was feared she had become hopelessly silent, when, one day...
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Terrestrial Snails and Slugs  Snails without a shell are generally referred to as slugs. ... Glass snails (Vitrinidae), for example, are called that way, because their shell has only a thin wall...
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The Gastropoda - University of California Museum of Paleontology  Some gastropod carnivores drill holes in their shelled prey, this method of ... Variation in shell morphology in some marine gastropods: Clockwise from ... Some snails (such as the whelk Syrinx aruanus) reach about 600 mm in length. ... Neritopsines come in all shapes and sizes and can have coiled to limpet-shaped shells,...