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snail; spiral fingerprint
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snail; spiral-shelled mollusk
Refers to various marine or freshwater mollusks with spiral shells, commonly used in daily life and cooking.
We picked up many beautiful sea snails on the beach.
Mom fried a plate of river snails as a late-night snack.
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Oncomelania snails are the intermediate hosts of schistosoma.
This kind of snail shell can be made into decorations.
Small snails covered the coastal rocks.
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spiral fingerprint
informalUsed in traditional handprint identification and daily colloquial talk about fingerprint patterns.
Everyone's fingerprints are different, some are spiral loops, others are whorls.
He has two spiral fingerprints on his right thumb.
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Elders often say people with more spiral fingerprints have good luck.
The police identified the suspect using the spiral fingerprint found at the scene.
My left index finger is a whorl, and my middle finger is a spiral loop.