Assertion: soft shell clam's shell | /r/HasProperty | ready to appear
Facets:
value: as an encumbrance
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Many of the bivalves, probably from their plant-like restriction to a single spot for most of their life, show extremely close adaptations of which the siphons may serve as an example, but unfortunately these have received comparatively little attention and even the "soft parts" are too often regarded merely as food or as an encumbrance to be removed before the "shell" is ready to appear in the "collection.