What does shelly mean?
Shelly means Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures.
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/ˈʃɛli/ · adjective
Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures.
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.
the shelly shore
Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.
It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly.
a shelly beach
the snail, whose tender horns being hit Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.
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Shelly means Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures.
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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.
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