How many syllables in Shell
Word
Shell
How many syllables?
1 Syllable
How it's divided?
shell
Definition
- n. - A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
- n. - The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut
shell.
- n. - A pod.
- n. - The hard covering of an egg.
- n. - The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of
mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks,
as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also,
the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise,
and the like.
- n. - Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.
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