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The final larval stage constructs barrel - or purse-shaped cases.

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There was even this little dolly-sized plastic green purse-shaped thing holding one of those plastic kerchiefs that older women use to cover their hairdos when it's raining unexpectedly.

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It brings the oriole back to the branch where still swings her exquisite purse-shaped home of last summer; it leads each pair of fishhawks to their particular cartload of sticks, to which a few more must be added each year; it hastens the wing beats of the sea-swallows northward to the beach which, ten months ago, was flecked with their eggs -- the shifting grains of sand their only nest.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

They were nearly spherical, [583] instead of flat and purse-shaped.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

Atypus abbotii builds a purse-shaped tube which is found attached to the bark of trees, and which has the external surface dark and covered with sand.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

Probably the best known of all fishes 'eggs, however (with the solitary exception of the sturgeon's, commonly observed between brown bread and butter, under the name of caviare), are the queer leathery purse-shaped ova of the sharks, rays, skates, and dog-fishes.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

The nest is deep and purse-shaped; the sides were prolonged upwards, except in front where the entrance was, and joined above so as to form a canopy.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The nest, which is somewhat purse-shaped, is placed in some upright fork between three or four slender branches, to all of which it is more or less attached.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

One nest found was suspended in a low bush, and was a very neat purse-shaped one, with an opening near the top and rather on one side.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

They are celebrated for their fine purse-shaped pensile nests.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868