chitinous

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  1. Consisting of or having the nature of chitin. When the chitinous textures of Insects are to be thus mounted, they must be first softened by steeping in Oil of Turpentine. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 210.
  2. Containing chitin in greater or less proportion: in the articulate animals, applied to any definitely hardened part of the integument.
  3. Chitinous degeneration. Same as amyloid degeneration.

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  • In the middle of my song, into the tent floated a forty-foot-long heavy iron-gray gravity sledge carrying at least eight carapace-hooded, chitinous, four-armed, ten-foot-tall Archons, each sitting deep in its own iron-gray metal throne. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • It stood watch, its curved protective armor stretching above its head like the chitinous shell of a crab, its lank, tripod metal legs letting it stand gracefully a hundred feet in the air. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • Nearly all rotifers have chitinous jaws called trophi that grind and shred food.
  • The shape of the toes, their proportion to body length, and the type of trophi (chitinous jaws) are important characteristics for identifying individual species.
  • The trophi (chitinous jaws) can be thrust partly out of the mouth to capture prey.
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