Crossword-Solution: CARAPACE 8 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Carapace n. The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the
tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

We have 36 clues for the answer “CARAPACE”

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Thick outer shell of tortoises, crabs, etc. 1 answer
Chitinous body 1 answer
Animal shell 1 answer
Crab or turtle shell 1 answer
SHELL of crustacean, upper 1 answer
Shell in a hurry? 1 answer
Shell of a crab or crayfish 1 answer
Terrapin topper 1 answer
The hard upper shell of a tortoise 1 answer
Tortoise's upper shell 1 answer
Turtle shell, e.g. 1 answer
Turtle's back. 1 answer
Turtle's shell 1 answer
Turtle's upper shell 1 answer
UPPER shell (of crustacean) 1 answer
shell turtle 1 answer
tortoise shell 2 answers
protective attitude 2 answers
Turtle shell. 7 answers
protective layer 8 answers
hard shell 9 answers
LOBSTER, part of the 16 answers
CASING ___ 19 answers
Sleeve 21 answers
Protective cover? 24 answers
Liner 25 answers
Outside 28 answers
sheath 43 answers
armour 45 answers
Jacket 54 answers
Framework 57 answers
CASE ___ 61 answers
shell 67 answers
Frame 68 answers
Layer 69 answers
COVERING ___ 75 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CARAPACE (5)

But this hard body might be a bony carapace, like that of the antediluvian animals; and I should be free to class this monster among amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Over the glaring eyes arose a horny helmet, a carapace of black and orange scales, studded with foot-long lance-headed horns.
The Moon Pool A. Merritt 1996
The head was, in a sense, shapely, and with the females the great horny carapace that stood over it like a fantastic helmet was much modified, as were the spurs that were so formidable in the male; colouration was different also.
The Moon Pool A. Merritt 1996
Perceiving the uselessness of that attempt, she retreated into her room with a movement like that of a tortoise which draws in its head after protruding it from its carapace.
Pierrette Honore de Balzac 1999
The Unknown has a way of her own in wrapping herself in her shawl or mantilla; she knows how to draw it round her from her hips to her neck, outlining a carapace, as it were, which would make an ordinary woman look like a turtle, but which in her sets off the most beautiful forms while concealing them.
Another Study of Woman Honoré de Balzac 2010

Quotes with CARAPACE (3)

Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he raised his spear and threw himself off the end of the wooden platform, launching into the air above the cavernous void. Bridgemen cried out in dismay. Syl zipped about him with worry. Parshendi looked up with amazement as a lone bridgeman sailed through the air toward them. His drained, worn-out body barely had any strength left. In that moment of crystallized time, he looked down…
Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings
Let us accept the possibility that there is, at death, not an abrupt cessation of energy, rather a dispersal. This seems more than reasonable to me. Mind you, I've owned a series of old cars, and I" m used to turning off the motor only to experience a series of rumblings and explosions that would shame many a volcano. This is the sort of thing I'm conceptualizing, a kind of clunky running-on. And just as some cars are more susceptible to this behavior, so people vary in the l…
Paul Quarrington The Boy on the Back of the Turtle: Seeking God, Quince Marmalade, and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin's Islands
Worse than that, however, was the CFO, a dapper-suited, neat-haired new age carapace containing an uninhibited misogynistic bogan, whose actual words to me, in concert with my boss in the same room were: 'To be successful you have to accept that weekends are for families.
Annabel Crabb
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).