Of, relating to, or involving a carapace; characteristic of or pertaining to the protective shell of certain animals.
From carapace plus the suffix -ic, forming an adjective, a variant of carapacial with the -ic ending being common in scientific terminology.
Scientists sometimes use both -ial and -ic endings on the same root word—showing that English borrows flexibly from Latin and Greek to describe nature!
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