"sand saucer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sand saucers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sand saucer (plural sand saucers)
  1. A round mass of the agglutinated egg-capsules of a naticoid gastropod, found on beaches. Categories (lifeform): Littorinimorphs

Inflected forms

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