Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The substance of which the horny covering of coleopterous insects is composed.
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And hence a necessity for greater strength in their interior framework than in that of fishes as strongly fenced round externally by scales or plates as the coleoptera by their elytrine, or the crustacea by their shells.
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