In the following question, select the related word from the given…

This type of analogy compares a fruit or nut to its outer protective covering — the part that encloses it — rather than its edible inner content.

An orange's outer covering is called its peel. Applying the same fruit-to-covering relationship to a nut, the hard outer protective layer of a nut is called its shell.

• Pulp is the soft, edible inner flesh of a fruit, not its outer covering.

• Kernel is the inner edible seed of a nut, the opposite of an outer covering.

• Scale refers to the small overlapping plates on fish or reptile skin, unrelated to a nut's covering.

Since Shell is the term for a nut's outer protective covering, matching the orange-to-peel relationship, Shell is the correct answer.