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carapace
car·a·pace C0096800 (kăr′ə-pās′)n.1. Zoology A hard bony or chitinous outer covering, such as the fused dorsal plates of a turtle or the portion of the exoskeleton covering the head and thorax of a crustacean.2. A protective, shell-like covering likened to that of a turtle or crustacean: "He used to worry that Sarah would age the same way, develop the same brittle carapace" (Anne Tyler).
[French, from Spanish carapacho.]carapace (ˈkærəˌpeɪs) or carapaxn (Zoology) the thick hard shield, made of chitin or bone, that covers part of the body of crabs, lobsters, tortoises, etc[C19: from French, from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin]car•a•pace (ˈkær əˌpeɪs)
n. a bony or chitinous shield, test, or shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of an animal, as of a turtle. [1830–40; < French < Sp carapacho] car′a•paced`, adj. car·a·pace (kăr′ə-pās′) A hard outer covering or shell made of bone or chitin on the back of animals such as turtles, armadillos, lobsters, and crabs.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  carapace - hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtlescuticle, shell, shieldturtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimmingarthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitincuticula - the outer body wall of an insectscute - large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snakemollusc, mollusk, shellfish - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shellshell - the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals |
Translationscarapace
carapace (kâr`əpās), shield, or shell covering, found over all or part of the anterior dorsal portion of an animal. In lobsters, shrimps, crayfish, and crabs, the carapace is the part of the exoskeleton that covers the head and thorax and protects the dorsal and lateral surfaces. In many crustaceans, the term carapace is also used to describe the hard, protective covering of the cephalothorax, as that of the horseshoe crab. The carapace of a turtle's shell is composed of expanded ribs and vertebrae overlain by dermal plates and horny scales.carapace[′kar·ə‚pās] (geology) The upper normal limb of a fold having an almost horizontal axial plane. (invertebrate zoology) A dorsolateral, chitinous case covering the cephalothorax of many arthropods. (vertebrate zoology) The bony, dorsal part of a turtle shell. carapace the thick hard shield, made of chitin or bone, that covers part of the body of crabs, lobsters, tortoises, etc. carapace
carapace (kăr′ə-pās′)n. Zoology A hard bony or chitinous outer covering, such as the fused dorsal plates of a turtle or the portion of the exoskeleton covering the head and thorax of a crustacean.carapace the part of the exoskeleton of a CRUSTACEAN that spreads over the head and thorax; in other animals, e.g. the tortoise, the carapace is the dorsal covering of bony plates.carapace
Related to carapace: gastric mill, SwimmeretsSynonyms for carapacenoun hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtlesSynonymsRelated Words- turtle
- arthropod
- cuticula
- scute
- mollusc
- mollusk
- shellfish
- shell
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