paper-shelled
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of paper-shelled
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Bitter, hard-shelled, and soft, or paper-shelled.
From Project Gutenberg
The thin-shelled ones are comparatively thin only, being about like paper-shelled pecans with the shell thinnest on the sides of the nut.
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It is not suggested that these two thin-shelled nuts be exploited as paper-shelled shagbarks since they are poorly formed nuts and of small size.
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What's in this paper-shelled, painted, hollow thing ye call 'society' to interest three healthy, wide-awake girls?
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For instance, she had started a grove of paper-shelled pecans, which was soon due to bear; the ranch house and its clump of palms was all but hidden by a forest of strange trees, which were reported to ripen everything from moth-balls to bicycle tires.
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