paper-shelled

[pey-per-sheld]

adjective

having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.

Origin of paper-shelled

First recorded in 1880–85

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Historical Examples of paper-shelled

The Jordan nuts are best, but the paper-shelled ones will answer.
Standard Paper-Bag Cookery
Emma Paddock Telford
It matters little whether you go for paper-shelled English walnuts or for plate-armored pignuts so long as you go.
The Fall of the Year
Dallas Lore Sharp
The horticulturist has developed forms twice the size of the native nuts, and with shells so thin as to be styled "paper-shelled."
Trees of Indiana
Charles Clemon Deam