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    A seashell is the empty shell of a small sea animal — the hard outside that is left when the creature is gone. People pick them up on the beach: spiral ones, fan-shaped ones, tiny pink ones. Children collect them; jewellers sometimes use them. The word is just sea + shell. All seashells are shells, but not all shells are seashells: an egg has a shell, a nut has a shell, and those never lived in the sea. In careful talk, a seashell is empty; if the animal is still inside, you have a live , not a souvenir. We usually say seashells in the plural when we mean a handful on the sand.

組成From sea + shell.

同家族的字

  • shellthe hard covering; a seashell is one kind
  • eggshellsame shell, but from an egg, not the sea
  • seashoresame sea: the land at the edge of the water

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

seashellnoun/ˈsiˌʃɛl/

  • 1

    The empty shell of a marine mollusk.

    • Look closely at the pretty seashell print on these blouses. They’re actually formulated from mathematical equations!
    • Fans will pump air through the alkaline stream, which causes carbon dioxide to form solid calcium carbonate, the material from which seashells are formed, which will look like a fine sand, as well as dissolved bicarbonate.
  • 2

    The animal living inside a seashell.

    • The seashells on the beach are toxic and best avoided.
  • 3

    A very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.

seashelladj/ˈsiˌʃɛl/

  • 1

    Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.

seashellverb/ˈsiˌʃɛl/

  • 1

    To collect seashells.

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