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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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Upon ecdysis, a chitinous duplicature of the exoskeleton is shed and a growth band is added to the valves.
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.
The tricuspid hooks support thin chitinous lamin, which connect the two lateral horns of each hook to the central apophysis.
The chitinous cuticle that covers the infundibulum extends into and covers the inner surface of the acetabulum.
Eurypterid cuticle was chitinous and of varying thickness, but generally very thin, and preserved specimens are usually crushed.

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