shelly

CEFRC2

/ˈʃɛli/

adjective

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adjective
Containing or covered with shells.
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adjective
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A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, variant of Shelley.

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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a shelly beach
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.
Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.

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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.
2000 June 16, Karl W. Flessa, “Learning from the Dead”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1971–1972
Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.
1818, Charles Lamb, “On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Garden”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly.
1906, Harry Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot
the snail, whose tender horns being hit Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.
1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC

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From shell + -y.