Assertion: gastropod's shell | /r/HasProperty | thick
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The shell is broadly ovate, thick, and sharply pointed except when eroded.
text: The shell is strong, thick, and very attractive, and is used to make shell tools, as ballast, to form jewelry.
text: As Tryon (1884) wrote in his description of the genus Julia: the shell is oblong, thick, and cordiform.
text: The shell is thick and strong and has six clockwise coils.
text: In general terms, however, gastropods occupying high-energy environments have thick shells and are commonly cap-shaped or low-spired, whereas shells with marked siphonal canals are adapted to creeping across soft substrates.
text: As implied earlier, land gastropods in dry regions tend to have very thick shells; on the other hand, those in very humid mountain situations have thin shells or none at all.