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What is the noun for shellular?

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shell

A hard external covering of an animal.

The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
(by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
(entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.

The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
(botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.

The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
(plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.

(geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
(weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
(weaponry) A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
(weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
(architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
(music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
(music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
(nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
(nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
(nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.
(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
An emaciated person.
A psychological barrier to social interaction.
(business) A legal entity that has no operations.
A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
(engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
(phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
Synonyms:

covering, case, casing, cover, husk, sheath, hull, pod, jacket, capsule, housing, encasement, armor, cocoon, integument, shuck, crust, pericarp, plastron, armour, carapace, defence, defense, scale, shard, shield, seed coat, skin, sheathing, wrapping, peel, rind, bark, coat, wrapper, sleeve, envelope, container, layer, legume, exocarp, coating, outer layer, seed case, vessel, wrap, outside, peeling, epicarp, zest … more

Examples:

“The seed is only toxic if the outer shell is broken or chewed open.”

“The steel shell of the building is anchored to the concrete substructure by means of a joint at the ground floor level.”

“Even Rouean admits that the shell of the storyline might sound trite.”

shelling

An artillery bombardment.
The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
(uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed.
(topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
Synonyms:

gunfire, bombardment, firing, discharge, blast, shot, salvo, shooting, barrage, shots, volley, sniping, burst, gunshots, artillery, strafing, cannonading, artillery fire, barrage of bullets, cannonade, blitz, fusillade, attack, bombing, blitzkrieg, battery, fire, drumfire, hail, offensive, crossfire, onslaught, drumbeat, strafe, shower, broadside, raid, assault, air attack, flurry, strike, storm, blasting, discharging, gunning, aerial attack, air raid, explosion, flak, enfilade … more

shellcode

(computing) A small piece of code, used as the payload of a virus or other malware, that launches a shell so that the attacker can control the compromised computer.

shellwork

decoration made from patterns of shells
Examples:

“The shellwork is of such sophistication that it is hard to imagine that professional assistance was not sought.”

“The body is of a modified inverted bell shape, embossed on the lower part with a band of gadroons and shellwork.”

“And you hate the very sight of shellwork and cone-frames, and Grecian painting, and all such vanities?”

shellability

(mathematics) The condition of being shellable

shelliness

The state or quality of being shelly.

sheller

One who, or that which, shells.
Synonyms:

stripper, peeler, flayer, husker, parer, shaver, skinner, huller, scaler, scraper, shucker, trimmer, barker, decorticator … more

Examples:

“In the following interview, he discusses how the maize sheller works when connected to a bicycle.”

“Presenter: The maize sheller machine run by a bicycle is the perfect solution for small-scale farmers.”

“While a technician shovels pomace into the small tractor-powered sheller, the pits are separated from the moist mash, which is then placed in an ordinary cement mixer.”

shellcodes

plural of shellcode

shellworks

plural of shellwork

shellings

plural of shelling
Synonyms:

shellers

plural of sheller
Synonyms:

strippers, peelers, flayers, huskers, parers, shavers, skinners, hullers, scalers, scrapers, shuckers, trimmers, barkers, decorticators … more

shells

plural of shell
Synonyms:

ammunition, shot, ammo, bullet, bullets, slugs, shell, missile, rocket, bomb, missiles, ball, projectiles, rounds, cartridges, buckshot, rockets, bombs, charge, munitions, cannonball, munition, materiel, cartridge, round, powder, gunpowder, grenades, armaments, armament, explosive, fuse, shot and shell, shots, pellets, balls, lead, explosives, cannonballs, mortar, bolts, torpedoes, slug, projectile, pellet, caps, gunshots, canisters, arrows, infernal machines … more

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