carapace
Example Sentences
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"Turtle growth rates and sizes vary," says Cómbita-Romero, so the team looked at features like the thickness of its carapace and the spots where its ribs were knitting together into solid bone.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023
It had stubby limbs and a flattened carapace, suggesting that—unlike modern sea turtles—this ancient reptile lived along shallow coastlines.
From Scientific American • Oct. 22, 2023
Polished, urbane and preternaturally prepared, Cornwell’s sometimes mischievous demeanor forms a kind of shadow narrative, a fascinating carapace that Morris’s interrogatory arrows fail to fully pierce.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2023
The fossil is partial, with a relatively complete carapace - the turtle's shell - but not the rest of the skeleton.
From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2023
What was new was not yet admirable, and thus it presented itself, as best it could, within the carapace of the ancient.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
