carapace
Kelime Anlamı :
1. kaplumbağa kabuğu.
2. kabuk hayvan.
3. kaplumbağa gibi hayvanların üst kabuğu.
4. sert deri/kabuk.
5. kabuk.
6. kabuk (hayvan).
Tanımlar :
1.
zoology A hard bony or chitinous outer covering, such as the fused dorsal plates of a turtle or the portion of the exoskeleton covering the head and thorax of a crustacean.
2. A protective, shell-like covering likened to that of a turtle or crustacean: "he used to worry that Sarah would age the same way, develop the same brittle carapace” ( anne tyler).
2. A protective, shell-like covering likened to that of a turtle or crustacean: "he used to worry that Sarah would age the same way, develop the same brittle carapace” ( anne tyler).
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A hard protective covering of bone or chitin.
2. in figurative use
2. in figurative use
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
the thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
the shell of a turtle or tortoise; specifically, the upper shell, the under shell being called the plastron.
2. in mammalia, the shell of an armadillo.
3. in Cirripedia, the multivalvular shell, test, or case.
4. in higher crustacea, the shield covering the cephalothorax, sometimes separable into a cephalostegite and an omostegite. see cut under apus.
5. one of the many hard cases, tests, or shells which are likened to a carapace, as those of certain infusorians; a lorica.
2. in mammalia, the shell of an armadillo.
3. in Cirripedia, the multivalvular shell, test, or case.
4. in higher crustacea, the shield covering the cephalothorax, sometimes separable into a cephalostegite and an omostegite. see cut under apus.
5. one of the many hard cases, tests, or shells which are likened to a carapace, as those of certain infusorians; a lorica.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia