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adjectiveof animals or fruits that have a shellOpposite:
Definition that contains shelled
- egg animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- nut usually large hard-shelled seed
- coconut large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
- pistachio small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts
- cocoanut large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
- calabash Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- babassu nut hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm
- bitter hickory hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
- orbignya phalerata tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
- family trionychidae soft-shelled turtles