Nutshell
Nutshell , noun
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.
(Zoology) A shell of the genus Nucula.
Collocations (2)
in a nutshell , in a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell.
To be in a nutshell or To 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.