shell
A hard external covering of an animal.
Other meanings
The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
Any mollusk having such a covering.
A kind of
- animal material
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "sċel".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shell” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.