carapace
English Thesaurus
1. hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | scute, |
| definition | : | large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cuticula, |
| definition | : | the outer body wall of an insect (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | turtle, |
| definition | : | any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | arthropod, |
| definition | : | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | mollusc, mollusk, shellfish, |
| definition | : | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell (noun.animal) |
| substance holonym | : | shell, |
| definition | : | the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals (noun.substance) |
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