coquillage — meaning in English

English meaning

• shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
• shellfish noun An aquatic animal with a shell, such as a crab, mussel, or oyster, especially one eaten as food.

Senses

coquillage is used for these senses in English:

• shell The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
• shellfish A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

shell — full definition

1. noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
2. noun An explosive projectile fired from artillery.
3. noun The outer frame or structure of something, especially when unfinished or empty inside.
4. noun A computer program that provides a command-line interface for interacting with an operating system.
5. verb To remove the outer covering from something, such as a nut or pea.

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