a small hard ball of any substance, often of soft material that has become hard 小球；團粒；丸 food pellets for chickens 團粒雞食 owl pellets (= the dried waste material from owls) 貓頭鷹顆粒 slug pellets (= to kill slugs) 鼻涕蟲丸
a very small metal ball that is fired from a gun 小彈丸 The cat had been hit by an airgun pellet. 這只貓被氣槍子彈擊中了。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French pelote ‘metal ball’, from a diminutive of Latin pila ‘ball’.