carapaça

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -asɐ Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧pa‧ça === Noun === carapaça f (plural carapaças) (zootomy) carapace (dorsal part of a turtle's shell) Holonym: casco shell (external covering of crustaceans) Synonym: casca shell (exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects) Synonym: casca Near-synonyms: exoesqueleto, élitro === References === === Further reading === “carapaça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “carapaça”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “carapaça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “carapaça”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN