carapace
皮壳,甲壳,胴体,壳
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- : a bony or chitinous shield, test, or shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of an animal, as of a turtle.
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These included fragments of carapace, mouthparts, and claws, as well as one remarkably well preserved carapace.
Rather, it may have used its large carapace to plow through the mud.
So while they won’t exactly feel your embrace through the dead carapace of their bark, they might sense you as an electrical presence lurking restlessly at their periphery.
That morning, I went out to get the newspaper from my lawn and spotted an empty carapace clinging to my front door jamb.
It starts when the spores of a certain species of Cordyceps take root in the carapace of an ant—different species target different insects.
I walked back to my desk, keeping the satisfaction locked tight within a carapace of steely unconcern, and took in the scene.
It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness.
Ian McEwan: Well, I think one way… I think you have to develop a carapace of boringness.
Greater awareness of that would soften their carapace of greed.
The record from Chinaj is based on a carapace found in a chiclero camp, where the turtle evidently had been brought for food.
The stripes on the forelimbs were orange, and the ocelli on the carapace were red.