paper-shelled

[ pey-per-sheld ]

adjective

1. having a thin, easily broken shell:

   paper-shelled nuts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of paper-shelled¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Bitter, hard-shelled, and soft, or paper-shelled.

From Project Gutenberg

The thin-shelled ones are comparatively thin only, being about like paper-shelled pecans with the shell thinnest on the sides of the nut.

From Project Gutenberg

It is not suggested that these two thin-shelled nuts be exploited as paper-shelled shagbarks since they are poorly formed nuts and of small size.

From Project Gutenberg

What's in this paper-shelled, painted, hollow thing ye call 'society' to interest three healthy, wide-awake girls?

From Project Gutenberg

For instance, she had started a grove of paper-shelled pecans, which was soon due to bear; the ranch house and its clump of palms was all but hidden by a forest of strange trees, which were reported to ripen everything from moth-balls to bicycle tires.

From Project Gutenberg