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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
- family nautilidae spiral-shelled cephalopods
- genus mytilus type genus of the family Mytilidae: smooth-shelled marine mussels
- black hickory smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
- pistacia vera small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts