half shell

== English == === Alternative forms === half-shell === Pronunciation === === Adjective === half shell (rare, colloquial, especially with "on the") Inexpensive; not overpriced. === Noun === half shell (countable and uncountable, plural half shells) (physics, figuratively) Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object. (of food, especially with "on the") Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams. ==== Derived terms ==== on the half-shell