殻

shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff

shell (e.g. electron shell)

Common noun; Noun, used as a prefix

chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass

Common noun

poor-quality coke (coal)

Suffix

left-overs; remnants

egg; eggshell

Idiomatic expression

to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself

shelling (e.g. of eggs, nuts, crabs and such)

Zoology

apex of a shell; umbo

flail (for threshing grain)

Physics

shell structure

Botany

cupule; acorn cup

Idiomatic expression

to withdraw into oneself; to shut oneself away; to seclude oneself

Rare term

to close up like an oyster; to retire into one's shell

Rare term

hard-shelled nut (e.g. walnut, pecan, almond)

cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae

seashell; shell

completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted

body from which the soul has left; corpse

Orig. meaning

shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)

shell; crust

carapace; shell; crust

eggshell

cigarette end; cigarette butt; tobacco ashes

(Earth's) crust

Geology

diastrophism (movement and deformation of the earth's crust)

upheaval (e.g. in politics); seismic shift; earthshaking changes

crustacean

okara; soy pulp; tofu dregs; edible pulp separated from soybean milk in the production of tofu