Shells
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The Origins of the Word Shell
The origins of the word shell are just as varied as the many uses of it nowadays. The root word is S-K-E-L, which does not inform skeleton, but is more like scale or shell or shell. And so we used it for anything that kind of had a scale or a rind or a bark or an outside thing. You can call any outside thing that you needed to remove or deal with a shell.
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