The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
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.
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