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Examples of carapace
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A good drama noses around under the carapace, exploring the face behind the mask.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Alternatively, use the carapace and legs to make a full-bodied shellfish stock.
From the guardian.co.uk
And Helen Clark, who like Harry wears an impenetrable carapace, at least publicly.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The female's ventral carapace is visibly cracked around the point of insemination.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Fenby shows that below the carapace he had a great capacity for feeling pain.
From the guardian.co.uk
The carapace is divided into two plates between the third and fourth leg set.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The carapace of the turtle has various color patterns that change over time.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The carapace will be full of gorgeous brown meat which you can scoop out.
From the independent.co.uk
My Kevlar jacket barreled a camouflage carapace onto my 5-foot-1 frame.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
- Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods such as crustaceans and arachnids as well as vertebrates such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tortoises, the underside is called the plastron.
- A hard protective covering of bone or chitin; in figurative use
- (5 Carapaced) A large turtle or turtle-like creature (mammal?) reported from 10 to 45 feet long. Carapace is described as jointed, segmented, and plated. May exhibit a dorsal crest of "quills" and a type of oily hair. Cosmopolitan.
- The shell covering the cephalothorax.
- The shell covering the back (top) of a turtle, crab, or other animalAny living thing that is not a plant. Most animals can move about freely. All use plants or other animals as food. All have sensory organs..
- A hard shell-like upper covering that protects the bodies of animals such as tortoises and turtles.
- The term denotes a shield of exoskeleton covering part of the body of certain animals. See also SHELL.
- In the Crustacea it describes a fold of the exoskeleton of the head that extends back over the thorax and may be fused with a few or all of the thoracic segments. It may also extend laterally to protect the sides of the body
