the thick hard shield, made of chitin or bone, that covers part of the body of crabs, lobsters, tortoises, etc
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car•a•pace /ˈkærəˌpeɪs/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Zoologya shield or shell of hard material covering some of an animal, such as a turtle.
car•a•pace
(kar′ə pās′),USA pronunciation n.
car′a•paced′, adj.
car•a•pa•cial
(kar′ə pā′shəl),USA pronunciation adj.
- Zoologya bony or chitinous shield, test, or shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of an animal, as of a turtle.
- Spanish carapacho, of obscure origin, originally
- French
- 1830–40;
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'carapace' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
calipash
- chicken turtle
- copepod
- crab
- crustacean
- fairy shrimp
- hard-shell
- horseshoe crab
- mole crab
- painted turtle
- shellfish
- spiny lobster
- stomatopod
- testudinate
- tortoiseshell
- turtle
- zoea