Carapace vs Omostegite - What's the difference?
carapace | omostegite |
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
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(zoology) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between carapace and omostegite
is that carapace is a hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal while omostegite is the part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.carapace
English
Noun
(en noun)- This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.
