| NOUN | animal | carapace, shell, cuticle, shield | hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles |
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| Meaning | Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles. | |
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| Synonyms | shell, cuticle, shield | |
| Part of | arthropod | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
| mollusk, mollusc, shellfish | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | |
| turtle | Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming / swimming | |
| Narrower | cuticula | The outer body wall of an insect |
| Broader | scute | large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake |
| Substances | shell | The material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals |
| Spanish | caparazón, carapacho, concha, cutícula | |
| Catalan | closca, cutícula | |
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