Definitions for carapace

carapace car·a·pace

Spelling: [kar-uh-peys]
IPA: /ˈkær əˌpeɪs/

Carapace is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in carapace (aaaccepr).

Definitions for carapace

noun

  1. a bony or chitinous shield, test, or shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of an animal, as of a turtle.

Origin of carapace

1830-40; French Spanish carapacho, of obscure origin

Examples for carapace

It is also found on the carapace of crabs and Limulus, and on mollusks.

The arthropods in general were provided with a carapace; most of them were crustaceans.

I walked back to my desk, keeping the satisfaction locked tight within a carapace of steely unconcern, and took in the scene.

In Chelonia the ribs are generally combined with the carapace.

At least three segments of the trunk are left uncovered by the carapace.

Ian McEwan: Well, I think one way… I think you have to develop a carapace of boringness.

Greater awareness of that would soften their carapace of greed.

The last four or five segments of the trunk are free from the carapace.

The Monosphrida comprise all those Sphroidea in which the carapace is represented only by one single lattice-shell.

It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness.

Word Value for carapace
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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