Assertion: gastropod's shell | /r/HasProperty | smooth
Facets:
value: in coloration
type: OTHER
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: to brownish-gray
type: OTHER
value: to sinuous sutures
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: with compressed or depressed whorl sections
type: OTHER
value: in order to decrease resistance
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The shell of burrowing forms, such as the olive and Terebra, are smooth, elongated, and lack elaborate sculpture, in order to decrease resistance when moving through sand.
text: Nautilidae, both extant and extinct, are characterized by involute or more or less convolute shells that are generally smooth, with compressed or depressed whorl sections, straight to sinuous sutures, and a tubular, generally central siphuncle.
text: Most snails have shells that are smooth, but there are some snails that have hairy shells.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: Some shells are smooth, others highly ornamented with spines or flutings.
text: They have a shell that is smooth and brown to brownish-gray in coloration and up to about 1 inch long.