carapaça

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carapaça

Etymology

Borrowed from French carapace, from Spanish carapacho.[1]

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧pa‧ça

Noun

carapaça f (plural carapaças)

  1. carapace, shell

References

  1. ^ carapaça” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913