English Dictionary

shelly

/ˈʃɛli/

adj

Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures / Resembling, or comprising, the shell of a mollusc / Abounding with shells.

The beach is covered in shelly sand.

意味（1）

Composed of the shells of dead marine creatures

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.

意味（2）

Resembling, or comprising, the shell of a mollusc

Shrined are your offspring in a chrystal cradle, / Brighter than Helen's ere she yet had burst / Her shelly prison.

意味（3）

Abounding with shells.

the snail, whose tender horns being hit

the snail, whose tender horns being hit Shrinks backward in his shelly cave.