hard-shelled
- s of animals or plants that have a hard shell
- One day last September, in California's Central Valley, Candidate Harry Truman made his political advisers wince with an off-the-cuff attack on hard-shelled Republican .
- There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning to Berlin, where he was a foreign correspondent before the war.
- When not actively infecting sheep or moose or people, the bug forms hard-shelled spores and goes into a kind of hibernation.