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 and divides as hard--shelled under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.