ShellWordNet Explorer

hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake

invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming

the outer body wall of an insect

a natural object that covers or envelops

one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods