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Webster 1913 Edition
Carapace
Car′a-pace
(kăr′ȧ-pās)
, Noun.
[F.]
(Zool.)
The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Definition 2024
carapace
carapace
English
Noun
carapace (plural carapaces)
- A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
- in figurative use
- 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish” in The Guardian, §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4
- This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.
- 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish” in The Guardian, §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4
Related terms
- carapaced
- carapaceous
- carapacial
Translations
hard protective covering
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References
French
Etymology
From Portuguese carapaça (“carapace, shell”), of uncertain origin.
Noun
carapace f (plural carapaces)