carapaça — meaning in English

English meaning

carapace noun A tough shell made of bone or chitin that covers an animal's back for protection.
shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

carapaça is used for these senses in English:

carapace A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
shell The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
shell (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.

noun A tough shell made of bone or chitin that covers an animal's back for protection.
noun Anything that shields or guards something.

noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
noun An explosive projectile fired from artillery.
noun The outer frame or structure of something, especially when unfinished or empty inside.
noun A computer program that provides a command-line interface for interacting with an operating system.
verb To remove the outer covering from something, such as a nut or pea.