Like a coconut's shell (4)

I believe the answer is:

hard

(Other definitions for hard that I've seen before include "to be listened to in Scotland" , "Solid; difficult" , "Difficult; rigid" , "Complicated" , "Unyielding" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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