shelly
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See also: Shelly
English
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[edit]shelly (comparative shellier, superlative shelliest)
- Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures
- 2000 June 16, Karl W. Flessa, “Learning from the Dead”, in Science[1], volume 288, number 5473, , pages 1971–1972:
- After all, we live today in an unusual world: sea level is low, the continents are dispersed, ice occupies the poles, and the shelly fauna of the oceans is composed largely of aragonite rather than calcite.
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- the shelly shore
- Resembling, or comprising, the shell of a mollusc
- 1818, Charles Lamb, “On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Garden”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb[2]:
- Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.
- 1906, Harry Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot[3]:
- It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly.
- Abounding with shells.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
- the snail, whose tender horns being hit
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.