Definitions
hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
Word origin
Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin, but likely from an extinct Ibero-Mediterranean substrate language.
Used in a sentence
“So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart.”
“This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Hard shell”8 letters
02“Turtle's hard covering”8 letters
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