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carapacelike

carapacelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a carapace.

Adjective

carapacelike (comparative more carapacelike, superlative most carapacelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a carapace.
    • Then they become sashaying runway models and later giggling friends, eventually succeeded by a mysterious creature who is revealed to be a woman hidden in a carapacelike coat.2007 October 15, Jennifer Dunning, “An Excursion in Butoh, From Stark to Slapstick”, in New York Times

Forms of carapacelike

comparativemore carapacelike
superlativemost carapacelike

Origin of carapacelike

From carapace + -like.

Questions about carapacelike

What does carapacelike mean?
Carapacelike means resembling or characteristic of a carapace.
What part of speech is carapacelike?
Carapacelike is an adjective.

Words near carapacelike in the dictionary

  1. caranxes
  2. carap
  3. carap oil
  4. carapace
  5. carapaced
  6. carapacelike
  7. carapaceous
  8. carapaces
  9. carapacial
  10. carapacic
  11. carapato

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