carapace

Converse of object

• have: The animal has a very long carapace; length up to 25-30 cm.
• form: In some lines these scales fused to form bony carapaces.
• gleam: I personally prefer the gleaming white carapace of the stormtrooper or snow trooper, very well animated as they run to their doom.
• call: This shell-like part of a crab's armor is called the carapace.

Adjective modifier

• hard: There are crabs that do not rely on a hard carapace to protect them.
• frosty: Neither of these men gets past our heroine's frosty carapace.
• protective: The imagines ( adults ) have flattened bodies with their top side forming a protective carapace over the animal.
• smooth: This is a small, black turtle that has a pattern on its smooth carapace with small yellow spots.

Modifies a noun

• width: They were all very small specimens about 75 mm carapace width.
• length: Measure the total carapace length of your tortoise in a straight line, not including the hump.
• size: Good numbers of lobster were present including a large number in the 83-86 mm size range and below the Committee's 90mm carapace size.

Noun used with modifier

• lobster: One project, that has excited wide media interest, is on crustacyanin from lobster carapace.

Possessives

• heroine: Neither of these men gets past our heroine's frosty carapace.

Preposition: of

• tortoise: There they investigated reports of a very large dinosaur egg, which proved to be the carapace of a fossil giant tortoise.