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- adjective Having a relatively
soft shell
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Examples
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Anna Glowinski has just produced some very stylish ladies jackets in a shower proof "softshell" material with designerly pleats and ruffles (ananichoola. co.uk).
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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
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(I'm still thinking about that softshell 5 days later ...)
Spring Break in Washington, DC aka TBTAM 2009
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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
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Innovation: Removable softshell bags with Velcro to keep them in place are a great idea.
Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009
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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
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Why, men are like softshell crabs, so tender, frail, and vulnerable are they.
Chapter 11 2010
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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
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Innovation: Removable softshell bags with Velcro to keep them in place are a great idea.
Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009
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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.
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