Thesaurus: nutshell

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1. n. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
2. n. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
3. n. A shell of the genus Nucula.
4. n. the shell around the kernel of a nut
5. 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. 2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. 3. (Zoöl.) A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.
6. A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, tobe within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simpledetermination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.
7. n:100 n. the shell around the kernel of a nut