Definition of Single-shelled

1. Adjective. Univalve.

Similar to: Univalve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Single-shelled

single-molecule magnet
single-parent families
single-parent family
single-payer system
single-phasing
single-player
single-ply membrane
single-ply roof
single-point urban interchange
single-point urban interchanges
single-propeller plane
single-reed instrument
single-reed woodwind
single-rotor helicopter
single-shelled (current term)
single-sideband modulation
single-space
single-spaced
single-spaces
single-spacing
single-strand binding protein
single-strand break
single-stranded
single-track
single-valued
single-valued function
single-valued functions
single-wide
single-wides

Literary usage of Single-shelled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A First Book in Geology: Designed for the Use of Beginners by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1907)
"... organs that convey the sense of hearing, all gathered about the front end of the body. Fig. 75. Sea Snail. This group of snail-like, single-shelled ..."

2. A First Book in Geology: Designed for the Use of Beginners by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1891)
"... organs that convey the sense of hearing, all gathered about the front end of the body. Fig. 75. Sea Snail. This group of snail-like, single-shelled ..."

3. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1857)
"Second, they are single-shelled, as very generally built, while the wooden vessels are all double-shelled, and consequently safer. ..."

4. Rice Genetics IV by Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy (2001)
"These particles are then either coated with the second outer shell and become inactive or remain single-shelled and repeat the replication process. ..."

5. Sermons in Stones: Or, Scripture Confirmed by Geology by Dominick M'Causland (1865)
"Of the Univalve, or single- shelled species, the principal were the Gasteropoda and Cephalopods, some of which latter were also carnivorous, represented in ..."

6. Elements of Zoology by Charles Frederick Holder, Joseph Bassett Holder (1885)
"They are found in tropical countries, buried in the mud or sand, the ruffled end containing the siphon exposed. single-shelled MOL- ..."

7. Elements of Zoology by Charles Frederick Holder, Joseph Bassett Holder (1885)
"They are found in tropical countries, buried in the mud or sand, the ruffled end containing the siphon exposed. single-shelled MOL- ..."

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