1. having or covered with a carapace (a hard protective shell or outer covering)
Usage: commonly used in zoology and biology to describe animals with shells

Examples

• The carapaced turtle retreated into its shell when threatened.
• Carapaced crustaceans like crabs and lobsters are common in coastal waters.
• The fossil showed a carapaced arthropod from the Cambrian period.
• Beetles are carapaced insects with hardened wing covers.
• The carapaced armadillo rolled into a ball for protection.