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Soft-shelled   Listen
adjective
Soft-shelled, Soft-shell  adj.  Having a soft or fragile shell.
Soft-shell clam (Zool.), the long clam. See Mya.
Soft-shelled crab. (Zool.) See the Note under Crab, 1.
Soft-shelled turtle. (Zool.) Same as Soft tortoise, under Soft.





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"Soft-shelled" Quotes from Famous Books



... and adjacent swamps, while wild ducks and geese made of the marshes, bordering the waterways, a rendezvous for days and weeks on their flights southward. The Bay at hand, and its estuaries, abounded in trout, hogfish, rock, shad, sturgeon and other edible species in season, not to speak of soft-shell crabs, hard-shell crabs, turtles, terrapin, ...
— Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century - Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17 • Annie Lash Jester


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