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[1633] The Pinna is a bivalve with a silky beard, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean.
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Pinna clams are called callo de hacha, because they might be mistaken for scallops - callos.
Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006
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Pinna clams are called callo de hacha, because they might be mistaken for scallops - callos.
Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006
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Pinna clams are called callo de hacha, because they might be mistaken for scallops - callos.
Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006
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Lenny Pinna, a first-time filmmaker, clearly deserves credit for trying something very different with this production.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002
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_Pinna_ and _penna_, perhaps from different roots, were confused even in antiquity.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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We might pass from the fibrous plants, and the metamorphosis of flax into cotton, to the _Pinna_, whose fibres grow in the sea on the coast of Italy, and anchor the huge shell-fish to the rock or the sand.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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The Auricula or Pinna (Fig. 904) is of an ovoid form, with its larger end directed upward.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear 1918
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One day, as I was standing outside the window of their house, listening to them playing, one of the children, Pinna the flautist, a youth of about fifteen, in bare feet, caught sight of me through the window.
Jewish Children 1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem 1887
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_Pinna_; he stammered; he called his dog Astronomer; instead of
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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