Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, that provides protection or support for an organism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology and anatomy, any structure produced by the hardening of the integument, as the shells of crustaceans or the scales and plates of fishes and reptiles, especially when such modified integument is of the nature of bone, as the carapace of a turtle or the plates of a sturgeon; the dermoskeleton: opposed to endoskeleton.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs
Etymologies
- From exo- + skeleton. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Using revolutionary hyper-sensors and nano-hydraulic technology, the exoskeleton is able to detect and amplify body movement.”
“The chitin of the black widow, her exoskeleton, is so shiny and tough that simply spraying her living quarters with Raid will not kill her; you must spray it directly on her body for the insecticide to take effect.”
“It's probably less protein in the human diet than carbohydrate (assuming their exoskeleton is comformed of chitin).”
“The building’s exoskeleton is a hyper-efficient structure that provides thermal mass for insulation, shade for residents, and architectural elements such as terraces and armatures that support turbines.”
“Instead of giving up on life, though, he persevered and found an experimental treatment for his paralysis called an "exoskeleton" that allowed him to stand and finally walk again at his recent graduation from the University of California, Berkley.”
“Instead of the familiar smooth blue-green, her exoskeleton was a rich, deep purple, the chitin worn rough and pebbly in places.”
“They cannot know that you are a pure organic and that your exoskeleton is a product of the froporia and not your own body.”
“The 43-year-old paraplegic was thrilled to be proved wrong this week as he tried out a new high-tech device called the "exoskeleton.”
“When they leave the water and shed their exoskeleton, which is called emerging, they're vulnerable for an hour or two before their wings dry out and they start to fly.”
“Failed Park Columbus condo conversion officially goes bankrupt Critic: Barclays Center 'recalls the exoskeleton of a cockroach”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exoskeleton’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 189 more...
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 468 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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JJMARLETTE's Words
phantasmagorical, antidisestablishm..., gargantuan, apocryphal, maim, disembowel, viscous, apothecary, seminal, exponential, googol, googolplex and 90 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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exo-
outside
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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list of errata
self-explanatory
penchant, obligatory, avant garde, decadent, luxe, uninhibited, burnish, analog, dexterity, sensual, proliferate, murmur and 80 more...
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McSkeletor's Words
inchoate, amortization, piperack, epistemological, moustachioed, thaumaturgy, reprehensible, incommunicado, sackbut, atavistic, velocipede, antediluvian and 58 more...
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Rich Habitats: A Study of Invertebrates
Vocabulary for studying invertebrates at Bartram's Garden
adaptation, biodiversity, cladistics, classification, decomposer, detritus, exoskeleton, habitat, invertebrate, metamorphosis, organism, predator and 16 more...
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