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Definition of shell
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of shell is as below...
Shell (n.) The case which holds the
powder,
or
charge
of
powder
and shot, used with
breechloading
small
arms..
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Conventional
::
Conventional
(a.)
Abstracted;
removed
from close
representation
of
nature
by the
deliberate
selection
of what is to be
represented
and what is to be
rejected;
as, a
conventional
flower;
a
conventional
shell.
Cf.
Conventionalize,
v. t..
Drill
::
Drill (n.) A
marine
gastropod,
of
several
species,
which kills
oysters
and other
bivalves
by
drilling
holes
through
the
shell.
The most
destructive
kind is
Urosalpinx
cinerea..
Fissurella
::
Fissurella
(n.) A genus of
marine
gastropod
mollusks,
having
a
conical
or
limpetlike
shell,
with an
opening
at the apex; --
called
also
keyhole
limpet..
Operculum
::
Operculum
(n.) The lid
closing
the
aperture
of
various
species
of
shells,
as the
common
whelk.
See
Illust.
of
Gastropoda..
Stria
::
Stria (n.) A
minute
groove,
or
channel;
a
threadlike
line, as of
color;
a
narrow
structural
band or line; a
striation;
as, the
striae,
or
groovings,
produced
on a rock by a
glacier
passing
over it; the
striae
on the
surface
of a
shell;
a stria of
nervous
matter
in the
brain..
Planorbis
::
Planorbis
(n.) Any
fresh-water
air-breathing
mollusk
belonging
to
Planorbis
and other
allied
genera,
having
shells
of a
discoidal
form..
Summitless
::
Summit
(n.) The most
elevated
part of a
bivalve
shell,
or the part in which the hinge is
situated..
Stromeyerite
::
Strombus
(n.) A genus of
marine
gastropods
in which the shell has the outer lip
dilated
into a broad wing. It
includes
many large and
handsome
species
commonly
called
conch
shells,
or
conchs.
See
Conch..
Ecdysis
::
Ecdysis
(n.) The act of
shedding,
or
casting
off, an outer
cuticular
layer,
as in the case of
serpents,
lobsters,
etc.; a
coming
out; as, the
ecdysis
of the pupa from its
shell;
exuviation..
Purpura
::
Purpura
(n.) A genus of
marine
gastropods,
usually
having
a rough and thick
shell.
Some
species
yield a
purple
dye..
Verticillated
::
Verticillated
(a.)
Arranged
in a
transverse
whorl or
whorls
like the rays of a
wheel;
as,
verticillate
leaves
of a
plant;
a
verticillate
shell..
Bulimus
::
Bulimus
(n.) A genus of land
snails
having
an
elongated
spiral
shell,
often of large size. The
species
are
numerous
and
abundant
in
tropical
America..
Phragmocone
::
Phragmocone
(n.) The thin
chambered
shell
attached
to the
anterior
end of a
belemnite.
Monomyaria
::
Monomyaria
(n.pl.)
An order of
lamellibranchs
having
but one
muscle
for
closing
the
shell,
as the
oyster..
Splintery
::
Splinterproof
(a.) Proof
against
the
splinters,
or
fragments,
of
bursting
shells..
Shell
::
Shell (n.) A
coarse
kind of
coffin;
also, a thin
interior
coffin
inclosed
in a more
substantial
one..
Gulgul
::
Gulgul
(n.) A
cement
made in India from sea
shells,
pulverized
and mixed with oil, and
spread
over a
ship's
bottom,
to
prevent
the
boring
of
worms..
Mother-of-pearl
::
Mother-of-pearl
(n.) The hard
pearly
internal
layer of
several
kinds of
shells,
esp. of pearl
oysters,
river
mussels,
and the
abalone
shells;
nacre.
See
Pearl..
Escalop
::
Escalop
(n.) A
bearing
or a
charge
consisting
of an
escalop
shell.
Siphonobranchiata
::
Siphonobranchiata
(n. pl.) A tribe of
gastropods
having
the
mantle
border,
on one or both
sides,
prolonged
in the form of a spout
through
which water
enters
the gill
cavity.
The shell
itself
is not
always
siphonostomatous
in this
group..
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