SHELL PLATING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the plates covering the frame of a steel ship and corresponding to the planking of a wooden ship
   Hypernyms(s) shell plating is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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