hard-shelled fruits

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• shelled — adjective of animals or fruits that have a shell • Ant: ↑unshelled • Similar to: ↑hard shelled, ↑smooth shelled, ↑spiral shelled, ↑thin shelled …   Useful english dictionary

• bottle gourd — also called  white flowered gourd , or  calabash gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)        running or climbing vine, of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to the Old World tropics but cultivated in warm climates for centuries for its ornamental… …   Universalium

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• Brazil nut — n. 1. a gigantic (30 45 m or 100 150 ft) South American tree (Bertholletia excelsa) of the lecythis family, which bears hard shelled, triangular, oily, edible seeds that grow in large, round, hard shelled fruits 2. this seed …   English World dictionary

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• gourd — gourdlike, adj. /gawrd, gohrd, goord/, n. 1. the hard shelled fruit of any of various plants, esp. those of Lagenaria siceraria (white flowered gourd or bottle gourd), whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo… …   Universalium

• Rosales — ▪ plant order Introduction  the rose order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 9 families, 261 genera, and more than 7,700 species. Rosales, which is in the Rosid I group among the core eudicots, is related to other orders with members …   Universalium

• macadamia — /mak euh day mee euh/, n. 1. any Australian tree of the genus Macadamia, esp. M. ternifolia, having whorled leaves and elongated clusters of pink flowers. 2. Also called macadamia nut. the edible, hard shelled seed of this tree. Also called… …   Universalium

• bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …   Universalium