carapaced

Accoutered with slim battle blades and carapaced armor, they were stern-eyed and martial.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

She drew the slim sword that rode at her waist and brought it slicing down through the carapaced head of a negator.

Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

Bees exploded in a pop-pop-popping that they could hear even over the whip of their own rotors, a machine-gun crackle, their carapaced speed sacs igniting as if they were a swarm of flying firecrackers.

Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

A vast, carapaced shape festooned with tentacles swept into view, then washed through the remains of the dam and down into the valley.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

Carlotta had come out of the sun-streaked decaying barrios of Los Angeles, carapaced in executive competence.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

The taverna was a low, squat structure of whitewashed plaster with a swinging wooden door through which lemon light poured beckoningly and with a creaking sign over its frontage, depicting a giant crab so elaborately carapaced it seemed pre - historic.

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

Four-color Plasticman goes oozing out of a keyhole, around a corner and up through piping that leads to a sink in the mad Nazi scientist's lab, out of whose faucet Plas's head now, blank carapaced eyes and unplastic jaw, is just emerging.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

A gorilloid supplied hands and strength; a small, carapaced partner had brains and keen eyes; the detachable organs that linked them contained cells for joining the two nervous systems into one.

The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972

The new generation don't go out without a carapaced catsuit, flame-throwing bras, dresses made of cupcakes or flowers or Muppets, and hair that defies logic and gravity.

The Guardian World News Alice Fisher 2011

But this is The Princess Royal, emotionally the most formidably carapaced member of the royal family.

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