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hard-shelled

ADJECTIVE
  1. of animals or plants that have a hard shell

How To Use hard-shelled In A Sentence

  • Fish eat snails in their shells and hard-shelled crustacea as well as invertebrates with exoskeletons.
  • To demonstrate that monarchs have an internal clock and that the clock is set by daylight, the researchers examined the time of day when adult monarchs emerge from their hard-shelled pupa, called the chrysalis.
  • The numerous Italian varieties of almond are almost all hard-shelled.
  • Fish eat snails in their shells and hard-shelled crustacea as well as invertebrates with exoskeletons.
  • Soft-bodied squid replaced the hard-shelled ammonites as the leading molluscs.
  • The productive Paleozoic era gave rise to hard-shelled organisms, vertebrates, amphibians, and reptiles. February 2009
  • Their eggs lost their hard shells first or, perhaps they never had hard-shelled eggs and then the apertural teeth came; 2. Archive 2008-07-01
  • I would strongly recommend sticking to hard-shelled candies - whether they are chocolate-filled, peanut butter-filled, nut-filled or anything else - even though the candies are added on after the cookies come out of the oven. Easter Egg Shortbread Cookies | Baking Bites
  • They grow to an impressive size and pass the time cracking open hard-shelled creatures like crabs and urchins between their fearsome teeth.
  • This three-foot-wide creature, which lives solely on hard-shelled mollusks, is a scourge of oystermen; a school of 3,000 rays can pick an oyster bed clean in an afternoon.
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