soft shell

Chop fine two strings of soft shell clams after washing them.

In preparing these bodies, cover the block with a soft shell.

One species of turtle has a soft shell, another a hard shell; has your authority in natural history told you why this is so?

She must have felt full ov fun, when she made a soft shell crab.

The sputtering explosion of a soft shell on the bridge startled Wardwell.

The soft shell crab is caught just as the old shell is shed, and is highly esteemed as a delicacy.

The soft shell crabs are served on a bed of water cress and radishes cut in fancy shapes.

The female lays a score of long eggs as large as a pigeon's, but with a soft shell.

Dere was no hard shell Baptist and no soft shell Methodist in deir make up.