Terminology record for shell
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| Record No.: | 198/en/365 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Coquille statut : recommandé
* Coquillage (nom féminin) statut : admis | |||||||||
| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom féminin | |||||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Coquille | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DÉFINITION |
Enveloppe dure, calcaire, qui constitue le squelette externe de la plupart des mollusques et qui est sécrétée par le tégument. | |||||||||
| PLURIEL | Coquilles ; Coquillages ; | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Shell status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Shells ; | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Old English scell (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schel ‘scale, shell’, also to scale ‘thin plates that cover the skin of many fish and reptiles’. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent. in sense 2. | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DEFINITION |
the hard, outer, protective covering of eggs, nuts, some seeds, insects and some animals | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
