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coque — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cockle noun Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  • hull noun The main body of a ship, boat, or aircraft.
  • nutshell noun The hard outer covering of a nut.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

Senses

coque is used for these senses in English:

  • coccus any spherical microorganism
  • cockle Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  • hull The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
  • nutshell The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
  • shell The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
  • shell (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
  • shell (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.

cockle — full definition

  1. noun Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  2. noun The shell of such a mollusk.
  3. noun A wrinkle, pucker
  4. noun A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep

hull — full definition

  1. noun The main body of a ship, boat, or aircraft.
  2. noun The outer covering of a seed, fruit, or nut.
  3. verb To remove the outer covering from a seed or fruit.

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