carapace
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
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- 8
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Definition of carapace
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
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noun
- A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
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(figuratively)That which protects.
“So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart.”
“This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree substrateder.? Spanish carapachobor. French carapacebor. English carapace Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin, but likely from an extinct Ibero-Mediterranean substrate language. Compare Catalan carabassa, Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”), Latin scarabaeus (the source of scarab); also Spanish galápago (“kind of turtle”). Doublet of calipash.
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