CARAPACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carapace mean? 

• CARAPACE (noun)
  The noun CARAPACE has 1 sense:

1. hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

  Familiarity information: CARAPACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARAPACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

carapace; cuticle; shell; shield

Hypernyms ("carapace" is a kind of...):

scute (large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake)

Meronyms (substance of "carapace"):

shell (the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carapace"):

cuticula (the outer body wall of an insect)

Holonyms ("carapace" is a part of...):

turtle (any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming)

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)