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What does chitinous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chitinous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling chitin.
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There was a slight spurt of body fluid as the chitinous armor was partly broken.
Eurypterid cuticle was chitinous and of varying thickness, but generally very thin, and preserved specimens are usually crushed.
When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way.
The uneasy rustling of chitinous arms against white robes recalled him from his meditation.
A chitinous exoskeleton is not rigid enough to support a mass of that size.
The tricuspid hooks support thin chitinous lamin, which connect the two lateral horns of each hook to the central apophysis.

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