📖 Definitions of "Shell"
noun
- 1
A hard external covering of an animal.
- 2
The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- 3
One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
"The restaurant served caramelized onion shells."
- 4
The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
verb
- 1
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- 2
To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- 3
To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- 4
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
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