shellie

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small or miniature shell. informal
    — As you would expect, the first shelled organisms acquired a shell in small steps, forming tiny (less than 1 mm) hard parts nicknamed "little shellies" or "small shellies."

词形变化

shellies plural

词源

From shell + -ie (diminutive suffix).
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