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  • adjective Having a relatively soft shell

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Examples

  • Anna Glowinski has just produced some very stylish ladies jackets in a shower proof "softshell" material with designerly pleats and ruffles (ananichoola. co.uk).

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Snappers and softshell turtles are very good table fare when cooked right.

    I was looking in the MA abstracts and i gotta ask: Who hunts turtles? 2009

  • (I'm still thinking about that softshell 5 days later ...)

    Spring Break in Washington, DC aka TBTAM 2009

  • The largest-known freshwater turtle, the living Asian softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii), is only about half that size, but still measures a very respectable six+ feet (about two meters) in length.

    "My little world and all I see..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • Innovation: Removable softshell bags with Velcro to keep them in place are a great idea.

    Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009

  • The largest-known freshwater turtle, the living Asian softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii), is only about half that size, but still measures a very respectable six+ feet (about two meters) in length.

    World Turtle Day '10 greygirlbeast 2010

  • Why, men are like softshell crabs, so tender, frail, and vulnerable are they.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • Snappers and softshell turtles are very good table fare when cooked right.

    I was looking in the MA abstracts and i gotta ask: Who hunts turtles? 2009

  • Innovation: Removable softshell bags with Velcro to keep them in place are a great idea.

    Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009

  • At pet shops, when I had a little money saved up, I bought exotic species like the beautiful Diamondback Terrapin from the mid-Atlantic states, Indian flap-shelled and Ganges softshell turtles that lacked a hard carapace, and sidenecked water turtles from Central and South America, species that pulled their heads in crookedly rather than straight, the better to keep tabs on its environment with a single, baleful eye.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: Extinction in the Gulf 2010

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