What is "carapaced"

Usage examples of "carapaced".

Any bloody fool of an amphibious parrot or disgraceful three-winged stoat had as much chance of survival, of success, as the slickest, the niftiest, the most singleminded dreck-eating ratlet or invincibly carapaced predator.

It was dominated by seven or eight huge glass palaces—if you think of the Crystal Palace, vastly extended and several times twinned, you will have something of the effect and these palaces had been joined over by a sort of skin of glass which carapaced the whole of the city.

The Mongols, carapaced, bristling with weapons, looked more insectile than human.

He could feel the Cardassian's gaze measuring him, evaluating and rendering a judgment behind the carapaced brow.

She often wondered about the voynix, those intruders that the posts referred to only as “chronosynthetic artifacts” or “temporal incongruities,” but these half-glimpsed figures—always lurking in the shadows, disappearing around the curve of the next ice corridor—were short and canvas-wrapped rather than tall and blind and carapaced.