"shelly" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From shell + -y.",
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      "form": "shellier",
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          "ref": "2000 June 16, Karl W. Flessa, “Learning from the Dead”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1971–1972:",
          "text": "After all, we live today in an unusual world: sea level is low, the continents are dispersed, ice occupies the poles, and the shelly fauna of the oceans is composed largely of aragonite rather than calcite.",
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          "text": "the shelly shore",
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        "Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures"
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          "ref": "1818, Charles Lamb, “On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Garden”, in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb:",
          "text": "Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.",
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          "ref": "1906, Harry Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot:",
          "text": "It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly.",
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          "text": "the snail, whose tender horns being hit\nShrinks backward in his shelly cave.",
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        "Abounding with shells."
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      "ipa": "/ˈʃɛli/"
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      "homophone": "Shelley"
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