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Carapace vs Carapacelike - What's the difference?

carapace | carapacelike |

As a noun carapace

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

As an adjective carapacelike is

resembling or characteristic of a carapace.

carapace

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
  • (in figurative use)
  • * 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish” in The Guardian , §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4
    • This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.

    Related terms

    * carapaced * carapaceous * carapacial

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    carapacelike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a carapace.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 15, author=Jennifer Dunning, title=An Excursion in Butoh, From Stark to Slapstick, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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. }}