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chitinous

[ US /ˈkaɪtənəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or resembling chitin

How To Use chitinous In A Sentence

  • Red and very clear, it shone on her chitinous tummy. Archive 2009-06-01
  • But this time… ‘Dancer held up her elongated forearms, staring at her pale, chitinous claws.’
  • Level 1 - Enhances the Assassin's chitinous armor with organic barbs, giving him 2 bonus armor and returning 10% of melee attack damage to enemies.
  • Owing to its peculiar nature, the hard outer skin, which is of horny, or, as it is called, 'chitinous' nature, cannot grow gradually, and so the skin has to be cast off periodically. Chatterbox, 1905.
  • By contrast, an armorial lustre slid along the chitinous combs of the insect's legs. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • In addition, examination of the chitinous cuticle that covers the surface of the infundibulum reveals a remarkable array of tiny pegs or ‘denticles’.
  • A chitinous exoskeleton is not rigid enough to support a mass of that size.
  • They are the earliest well-known complex three-dimensional trace fossils; mostly small, chitinous, calcareous, and phosphatic elements of problematic affinity.
  • The head of the thing was not that of a locust but a different, bright-eyed presence not human or animal but chitinous, alien, fanged, stony and sleek in aspect. Abomination at the Shilkie
  • Obtected: applied to pupae when they are covered with a chitinous case which confines and conceals all appendages, though their outlines may be marked on the surface: see free, and coarctate. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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