carapace

n. 甲壳, 壳 [医] 甲, 甲壳, 介

发音

其它 /ˈkæ.ɹəˌpeɪs/
US /ˈkɛɹ.əˌpeɪs/

词形变化

carapaces 复数 carapaces

别名

carapax

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.

    甲壳

  2. 2.

    That which protects.

    比喻

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

shell shield cuticle

上位词 1

scute

下位词 1

cuticula

部分词 1

shell

整体词 5

turtle shellfish arthropod mollusc mollusk

词源

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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