Noun: carapace
| Singular | carapace |
| Plural | carapaces |
Sample Sentences
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So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart. [1928, Edward A. Ross, World Drift, New York; London: The Century Co., page 12:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like carapace
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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2. substrateder.?
3. Spanish carapachobor.
4. French carapacebor.
5. English carapace
6. Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin, but likely from an extinct Ibero-Mediterranean substrate language.
7. Compare Catalan carabassa, Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”), Latin scarabaeus (the source of scarab); also Spanish galápago (“kind of turtle”). Doublet of calipash. See: French Nouns '
carapace', Spanish Nouns '
carapacho', Catalan Nouns '
carabassa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κάραβος', Latin Nouns '
scarabaeus', Spanish Nouns '
galápago'.
Verbs referencing "carapace"
Galician Nouns
carapa.