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壳
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Definitions
- 1. shell
- 2. carapace
- 3. crust (earth's crust etc)
- 4. also pr. [ké]
Words Containing 壳
muddled
outer ear
crustacean
crustacean
see 蛻殼|蜕壳[tuì ké]
see 無殼蝸牛|无壳蜗牛[wú ké wō niú]
oil sump
case, casing, cabinet or housing (of a computer, photocopier etc)
shell
tortoise shell
to break out of an eggshell
shell company; shell corporation
coconut fiber
crustal movement
containment vessel
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
see 殼牌公司|壳牌公司[qiào pái gōng sī]
crust
skull
rice husk
Formosan pit viper
husk of grain
nut
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
adductor muscle (of a bivalve mollusk)
carapace
carapace
the body (housing the soul)
oceanic crust (geology)
tortoise shell
Shell (oil company)
bark of Croton tiglium used as purgative
metal cover
coleoptera
(coll.) feeder pig
eggshell
see 屎蚵螂[shǐ kē láng]
bullet-headed
coconut shell
the Earth's crust
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell
to exuviate
crust-mantle (geology)
envelope
crust
chitin
oceanic crust (geology)
ammunition case
tortoise shell
carapace
Mauser pistol
bivalve
clamshell
oceanic crust (geology)
chitin