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- noun Alternative form of
dog whelk .
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Petraitis worked with former graduate student Jonathan Fisher, to measure 100-year-old Atlantic dogwhelk snail shells.
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Petraitis worked with former graduate student Jonathan Fisher, to measure 100-year-old Atlantic dogwhelk snail shells.
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The most striking finding, which has not been reported previously in Nucella lapillus, the Atlantic dogwhelk, is that shell length increased at all 19 sites where samples were taken.
russell horton commented on the word dogwhelk
Occurs in Cormac McCarthy’s 1979 novel Suttree
March 25, 2009