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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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Animals possessing an external skeleton composed of chitinous rings, or somites, and provided with articulated limbs.
Phoronida is a second lophophorate phylum, comprising coelomate, vermiform animals living in chitinous tubes.
Eurypterid cuticle was chitinous and of varying thickness, but generally very thin, and preserved specimens are usually crushed.
There was a slight spurt of body fluid as the chitinous armor was partly broken.
When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way.
Every normal crustacean, on the other hand, has the abdominal region of the body covered by a thick chitinous shell.

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