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calipashes

calipashes is the plural 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

Questions about calipashes

What is calipashes the plural of?
Calipashes is the plural of calipash.

Words near calipashes in the dictionary

  1. caliological
  2. caliologist
  3. caliologists
  4. caliology
  5. calipash
  6. calipashes
  7. Calipatria
  8. Calipayan
  9. calipee
  10. calipees
  11. caliper

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