carapace

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The suit -- called a carapace -- is about 70% complete and covers each major region of the body.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

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

The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley