Assertion: mollusk's shell | /r/HasProperty | compressed
Facets:
value: laterally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In deeper-burrowing species the shells are laterally compressed, permitting more rapid movement through the sediments.
text: The shells of the most efficient burrowers, the razor clams Ensis and Solen, are laterally compressed, smooth, and elongated.
text: The shell is laterally compressed and thus more bladelike, but the adductor muscles are still of similar size (the isomyarian form).