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caparazón — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • caparison noun The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
  • carapace noun A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

Senses

caparazón is used for these senses in English:

  • caparison The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
  • carapace A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
  • shabrack The saddlecloth of a cavalry horse.
  • shell (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
  • shell The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
  • shell (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
  • 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.

caparison — full definition

  1. noun The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
  2. noun Gay or rich clothing.

carapace — full definition

  1. noun A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
  2. noun That which protects.

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