hard-shelled

1. 1.

   of animals or plants that have a hard shell

   Similarshelled

Questions about hard-shelled

What does hard-shelled mean?

hard-shelled means "of animals or plants that have a hard shell".

How many syllables are in hard-shelled?

hard-shelled has 2 syllables: hard--shelled. The stress falls on "hard-".

Is hard-shelled a common word?

hard-shelled is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.