"Periostracum" is a word in ENGLISH
A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many
shells; -- called also epidermis.
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It was a particularly tough football game, and nerves were on edge. The home team had been the victim of three or four close calls, and they were now trailing the visitors by a touch-down and a field goal. When the official called yet another close one in the visitors' favor, the home quarterback blew his top.How many times can you do this to us in a single game?" he screamed. "You were wrong on the out-of-bounds, you were wrong on that last first down, and you missed an illegal tackle in the first quarter." The official just stared. The quarterback seethed, but he suppressed the language that might get him tossed from the game. "What it comes down to," he bellowed, "is that you STINK!" The official stared a few more seconds. Then he bent down, picked up the ball, paced off 15 yards, and put the ball down. He turned to face the steaming quarterback. The official finally replied, "And how do I smell from here?"
A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; …
Read the complete definitionThe process of becoming chitinous.
Read the complete definitionHaving the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.
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Read the complete definitionA chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.
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Read the complete definitionA stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
Read the complete definitionA slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those …
Read the complete definitionAny species or marine hydroids, of the genus Hydractinia and allied genera. These hydroids form, by their rootstalks, a firm, …
Read the complete definitionAn inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
Read the complete definitionOne of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.
Read the complete definitionCovered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.
Read the complete definitionOne of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca.
Read the complete definitionA special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage …
Read the complete definitionA chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
Read the complete definitionA chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.
Read the complete definitionAn internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.
Read the complete definitionThe chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.
Read the complete definitionA hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.
Read the complete definitionA chitin.
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