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What does chitinous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling chitin.
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Every normal crustacean, on the other hand, has the abdominal region of the body covered by a thick chitinous shell.
Phoronida is a second lophophorate phylum, comprising coelomate, vermiform animals living in chitinous tubes.
Upon ecdysis, a chitinous duplicature of the exoskeleton is shed and a growth band is added to the valves.
A chitinous exoskeleton is not rigid enough to support a mass of that size.
The uneasy rustling of chitinous arms against white robes recalled him from his meditation.
When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way.

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