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Chitinization

The process of becoming chitinous

Having the nature of chitin consisting of or containing chitin

A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects crustacea and various other invertebrates...

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a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain

allied genera These hydroids form by their rootstalks a firm chitinous coating on shells and stones and esp on spiral shells

consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula or lingual ribbon armed with teeth Also applied to

A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects