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Things shell often describes ("shell ________")
- eggs
- work
- energy
- trumpets
- structures
- crabs
- beds
- tube
- fire
- matrix
- plates
- crab
- gland
- beads
- structure
- fishes
- rooms
- louse
- mounds
- combs
- atoms
- vacancy
- shock
- electrons
- orbitals
- lime
- tanks
- guns
- sections
- limestone
- hole
- china
- heap
- bucket
- butterfly
- configuration
- porcelain
- vacancies
- comb
- model
- splinters
- cat
- baptist
- craters
- ionization
- excitation
- nuclei
- clams
- molecules
- rattles
- burst
- bursts
- trumpet
- formation
- transitions
- sand
- nanoparticles
- clam
- type
- middens
- money
- electron
- proof
- cups
- box
- spectacles
- holes
- systems
- turtle
- case
- connector
- lac
- fish
- silver
- mound
- crackling
- construction
- glasses
- baptists
- fragments
- firing
- configurations
- heaps
- ware
- ornaments
- rattle
- scale
- marl
- particles
How shell often is described ("________ shell")
- upper
- empty
- closed
- broken
- top
- single
- dead
- solid
- tortoise
- tough
- hollow
- white
- spherical
- fragile
- bivalve
- clam
- mortar
- hard
- inch
- explosive
- heavy
- outside
- shaped
- outer
- huge
- cylindrical
- half
- pound
- expert
- transparent
- german
- marine
- delicate
- thick
- brown
- smooth
- thin
- mere
- tiny
- double
- circular
- conch
- bony
- rigid
- chambered
- spiral
- calcareous
- exterior
- occasional
- oyster
- beautiful
- protective
- sea
- like
- coiled
- plastic
- inner
- outermost
- conical
- cockle
- cortical
- snail
- fossil
- incomplete
- concrete
- pearl
- soft
- external
- magnetic
