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Carapace vs Midden - What's the difference?

carapace | midden |

As nouns the difference between carapace and midden

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

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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    midden

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dungheap.
  • A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
  • (archaeology) A prehistoric pile of bones and shells.

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