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shell-like
adjective
- resembling the empty shell of a mollusc
noun
- slang.an ear (esp in the phrase a word in your shell-like )
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The hired man put away the dishes, and went into his shell-like bedroom, a thin addition built against the house.
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The latter is filled with a liquid which conveys the vibrations to a part having a coiled shell-like structure called the Cochlea.
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Beetles have hard wing covers—see these little shell-like casings?
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The eggs are laid in shell-like cases, and cemented together in plate-like masses or in spirals, and attached to shells or stones.
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The body is enveloped in a fold of skin, to which are attached five shell-like plates.
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