shell

ʃɛl

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#1·5h ago

The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.

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#2·5h ago

A hard external covering of an animal.

The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.

Origin: From , from , from , from , from . Compare , , , , . More at shale. . * (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·5h ago

One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.

Then they lifted the body into the bag, setting it down like something breakable, zipped the bag, wrapped the whole thing in polythene and carried the stretcher into the shell.

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