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[[shell of an egg]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ὄστρακον]], τό ([[Aeschylus|Aesch.]], ''Fragment''), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[λεπίς]], ἡ; [[κέλυφος]], τό.

[[a white egg-shell]]: [[verse|V.]] [[τεῦχος νεοσσῶν λευκόν]] ([[Euripides|Eur.]], ''[[Helen]]'' 258).

[[having just come out of the shell]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἄρτι γυμνὸς ὀστράκων]] ([[Aeschylus|Aesch.]], ''Fragment'').

of a [[tortoise]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] [[δέρμα]], τό; [[κέλυφος]], τό.

of a [[fish]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὄστρειον]], τό.

[[husk]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[λέμμα]], τό; see [[husk]].

[[shell trumpet]]: [[verse|V.]] [[κόχλος]], ὁ.

Met., [[cover]], [[case]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἔλυτρον]], τό ([[Plato]]), [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κύτος]], τό.

[[shell fish]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ὄστρειον]], τό ([[Aeschylus|Aesch.]], ''Fragment''), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κόγχη]], ἡ ([[Xenophon|Xen.]]), [[verse|V.]] [[μῦς]], ὁ ([[Aeschylus|Aesch.]], ''Fragment''), [[κόγχος]], ὁ ([[Aeschylus|Aesch.]], ''Fragment'').
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