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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CALIPASH and CALIPEE (possibly connected with

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CARAPACE (a Fr. word, from the Span. carapacho, a shield or armour)

carapace, the upper

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SHELL
SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)

shell of a turtle), the gelatinous substances in the upper and

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LOWER

lower shells, respectively, of the turtle, the calipash being of a dull greenish and the calipee of a

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LIGHT

light yellow

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COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

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