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Carapace

noun
1.
Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.  Synonyms: cuticle, shell, shield.






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"Carapace" Quotes from Famous Books



... privilege of a single species: its existence has been satisfactorily established in numerous and various animals. The genus Volvox—the little worms or wormlets in vinegar, mud, spoiled paste, or grain-smut; the Rotifera—a kind of little shell-fish protected by a carapace, provided with a good digestive apparatus, of separate sexes, having a nervous system with a distinct brain, having either one or two eyes, according to the genus, a crystalline lens, and an optic nerve; the Tardigrades—which are little spiders ...
— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About

... opened without inquiry, which was not the part of wisdom in that country and at that hour. His pocket-flash gleamed on a thin young man in a black-rubber coat who, with head and hands retracted as far as possible from the pouring rain, resembled a disconsolate turtle with an insufficient carapace. ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams



Words linked to "Carapace" :   mollusc, cuticula, turtle, shell, shellfish, arthropod, scute, mollusk



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