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Carapace   Listen
noun
Carapace  n.  (Zool.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Carapace" Quotes from Famous Books



... but it is left to us, fagged out from a long ramble, to sit down on a log and celebrate the admirable qualities of a turtle. We refer not to the curious architecture of its house—ribbed, plated, jointed, carapace and plastron divinely fashioned—but to its instincts, worthy almost of being called ...
— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage



Words linked to "Carapace" :   mollusk, cuticle, cuticula, shell, turtle, arthropod, shield



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