Word Meanings - CARAPACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

Related words: (words related to CARAPACE)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• TURTLE PEG
  A sharp steel spear attached to a cord, used in taking sea turtles. -- Turtle pegging.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• CRUSTACEOUS
  Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• SHELL
  The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates,
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.