Word of the Day:
carapace
What It Means
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
That which protects.
Carapace in Context
“This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin, but likely from an extinct Ibero-Mediterranean substrate language. Compare Catalan carabassa, Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”), Latin scarabaeus (the source of scarab); also Spanish galápago (“kind of turtle”). Doublet of calipash.
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