carapace
nounEtymology
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.
- derived from carapacho
Definitions
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal…
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
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.
The neighborhood
- neighborexoskeleton
Derived
carapaced, carapacelike, carapaceous, carapacial, carapacic, pseudocarapace
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for carapace. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA