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small shellies

small shellies noun: small shelly fauna.

Noun

small shellies pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Small shelly fauna.
    • Following this is the earliest Cambrian, where large shelly invertebrates are rare (and no trilobites occur), but the commonest fossils are tiny forms nicknamed the “small shellies.”2009, Joseph Seckbach, Divine Action and Natural Selection, page 486
    • Although difficult to interpret, small shellies may hold the key to understanding the origins of shelled and biomineralised groups of animals.2018, Mark Carnall, “Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica”, in The Guardian

Questions about small shellies

What does small shellies mean?
Small shellies means small shelly fauna.
What part of speech is small shellies?
Small shellies is a noun.

Words near small shellies in the dictionary

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  2. Small Scale Integration
  3. small science
  4. small screen
  5. small seal script
  6. small shellies
  7. small skipper
  8. small skippers
  9. small sky
  10. small slam
  11. small slams

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