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Definition of nutshell in English: nutshellnoun ˈnʌtʃɛlˈnətˌʃɛl 1The hard woody covering around the kernel of a nut. Example sentencesExamples - It is made from the luohan guo, a round brown fruit with crisp nutshells.
- Notably, however, the remains present are fruit stones and nutshells, items that would have been discarded during the final preparation of a meal or at the time of consumption.
- Fruits and vegetables were available at the time according to the discovery on the same site of fruit stones, nutshells and more stools containing leeks and other vegetable matter.
- Soon their way veered from the shoreline, and they walked under large canopies of beech trees that dropped nutshells at their feet.
- Similarly, hickory, walnut, and acorn nutshells have been recovered from Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic contexts at the Hester site, Smith's Ferry, Pickens County, and Rodgers Shelter.
2Any of a number of bivalve molluscs occurring chiefly in cool seas. a small oval-shelled bivalve (genus Nuculana, family Nuculanidae). a bivalve with a rectangular shell which is rounded at the front and angled behind (genus Nucula, family Nuculidae).
Phrases In the fewest possible words. she put the matter in a nutshell Example sentencesExamples - There, in a nutshell, is the source material for countless books.
- And this, in a nutshell, is the story of Portuguese wine over the past 20 years.
- The news from all my friends in a nutshell: our parents are getting old and sick.
- Yet, in a nutshell, it lacks the originality that it would take to launch a musical revolution.
- That's pretty much the last ten years of American political history in a nutshell.
- Its brief, in a nutshell, is to showcase works of art to as broad a spectrum of people as possible.
- These famous lines of Shakespeare aptly describe the human life in a nutshell as perhaps no other verse manages to do.
- This, in a nutshell, summarizes the uphill battle of perception facing hedge funds.
- Here, then, is their perspective in a nutshell, and it's a despicable sight.
- So in a nutshell that's what I've been up to since Wednesday - drinking too much, not sleeping enough.
Synonyms in short, briefly, in brief, to put it briefly, to cut a long story short, in a word, to sum up, in sum, to come to the point, in essence, in outline
Definition of nutshell in US English: nutshellnounˈnətˌʃɛlˈnətˌSHel The hard woody covering around the kernel of a nut. Example sentencesExamples - Similarly, hickory, walnut, and acorn nutshells have been recovered from Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic contexts at the Hester site, Smith's Ferry, Pickens County, and Rodgers Shelter.
- Soon their way veered from the shoreline, and they walked under large canopies of beech trees that dropped nutshells at their feet.
- It is made from the luohan guo, a round brown fruit with crisp nutshells.
- Fruits and vegetables were available at the time according to the discovery on the same site of fruit stones, nutshells and more stools containing leeks and other vegetable matter.
- Notably, however, the remains present are fruit stones and nutshells, items that would have been discarded during the final preparation of a meal or at the time of consumption.
Phrases In the fewest possible words. she put the matter in a nutshell Example sentencesExamples - These famous lines of Shakespeare aptly describe the human life in a nutshell as perhaps no other verse manages to do.
- Yet, in a nutshell, it lacks the originality that it would take to launch a musical revolution.
- The news from all my friends in a nutshell: our parents are getting old and sick.
- There, in a nutshell, is the source material for countless books.
- So in a nutshell that's what I've been up to since Wednesday - drinking too much, not sleeping enough.
- Here, then, is their perspective in a nutshell, and it's a despicable sight.
- Its brief, in a nutshell, is to showcase works of art to as broad a spectrum of people as possible.
- This, in a nutshell, summarizes the uphill battle of perception facing hedge funds.
- And this, in a nutshell, is the story of Portuguese wine over the past 20 years.
- That's pretty much the last ten years of American political history in a nutshell.
Synonyms in short, briefly, in brief, to put it briefly, to cut a long story short, in a word, to sum up, in sum, to come to the point, in essence, in outline
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