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Meaning of small shellies | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Small shelly fauna.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“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.””
“Although difficult to interpret, small shellies may hold the key to understanding the origins of shelled and biomineralised groups of animals.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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