carapace
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɛɹ.əˌpeɪs/, /ˈkæ.ɹəˌpeɪs/
carapace (plural carapaces)
- A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
- in figurative use
- 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish” in The Guardian, §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4
- This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.
- 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish” in The Guardian, §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4
- carapaced
- carapaceous
- carapacial
- French: carapace
- German: Carapax, Rückenschild (of turtles and tortoises), Rückenpanzer (of turtles and tortoises), Schale (of crustaceans)
- Italian: carapace, esoscheletro
- Russian: карапа́кс
- Spanish: carapacho, caparazón
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