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Definition of Carapaces
1. carapace [n] - See also: carapace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carapaces
Literary usage of Carapaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"Ice carapaces which are better described as inland-ice, since they cover considerable
proportions of the interiors of the land areas upon which they rest, ..."
2. The Gigantic Land-tortoises (living and Extinct) in the Collection of the by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1877)
"Among the carapaces two very distinct forms may be recognized, which, however,
... The skulls belonging to the carapaces not having been found, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and posterior carapaces constitute almost the entire body, the two carapaces
being connected by a mid-region of only two free somites. ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"These carapaces in some instances have been much modified by pressure, ...
Two carapaces with segments and parts of appendages from Ludlow (Ludlow Mus. ..."
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