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calapash

calapash is the alternative form of calipash.

Meaning of calipash

Noun

calipash (countable and uncountable, plural calipashes)

  1. The edible greenish material found underneath the upper half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
    • The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I

Forms of calapash

pluralcalapashes

Questions about calapash

What is calapash the alternative form of?
Calapash is the alternative form of calipash.

Words near calapash in the dictionary

  1. calanticids
  2. Calantipayan
  3. Calaoaan
  4. Calaocan
  5. Calapan
  6. calapash
  7. calapashes
  8. Calape
  9. calapee
  10. calapees
  11. calaphidine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calapash (page history and authors); calipash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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