Definitions for carapaces

carapaces car·a·pace

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

Carapaces is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in carapaces (aaacceprs).

Definitions for carapaces

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 carapaces

1830-40; French Spanish carapacho, of obscure origin

Examples for carapaces

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.

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.

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

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

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

In Chelonia the ribs are generally combined with the carapace.

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

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

Word Value for carapaces
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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