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Definition of chitin
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of chitin is as below...
Chitin
(n.) A white
amorphous
horny
substance
forming
the
harder
part of the outer
integument
of
insects,
crustacea,
and
various
other
invertebrates;
entomolin..
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Seta
::
Seta (n.) One of the
movable
chitinous
spines
or hooks of an
annelid.
They
usually
arise in
clusters
from
muscular
capsules,
and are used in
locomotion
and for
defense.
They are very
diverse
in
form..
Chitin
::
Chitin
(n.) A white
amorphous
horny
substance
forming
the
harder
part of the outer
integument
of
insects,
crustacea,
and
various
other
invertebrates;
entomolin..
Theca
::
Theca (n.) The
chitinous
cup which
protects
the
hydranths
of
certain
hydroids.
Chitinization
::
Chitinization
(n.) The
process
of
becoming
chitinous.
Prophragma
::
Prophragma
(n.) An
internal
dorsal
chitinous
process
between
the first two
divisions
of the
thorax
of
insects.
Sertularian
::
Sertularian
(n.) Any
species
of
Sertularia,
or of
Sertularidae,
a
family
of
hydroids
having
branched
chitinous
stems and
simple
sessile
hydrothecae.
Also used
adjectively..
Elytrin
::
Elytrin
(n.) See
Chitin.
Trematodea
::
Trematodea
(n. pl.) An
extensive
order of
parasitic
worms.
They are found in the
internal
cavities
of
animals
belonging
to all
classes.
Many
species
are
found,
also, on the gills and skin of
fishes.
A few
species
are
parasitic
on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most
important,
are
injurious
parasites
of
domestic
animals.
The
trematodes
usually
have a
flattened
body
covered
with a
chitinous
skin, and are
furnished
with two or more
suckers
for
adhesion.
Most of the
species
are
hermaphrodi
Nervure
::
Nervure
(n.) One of the
chitinous
supports,
or
veins,
in the wings of
incests..
Periostracum
::
Periostracum
(n.) A
chitinous
membrane
covering
the
exterior
of many
shells;
--
called
also
epidermis.
Gizzard
::
Gizzard
(n.) A
stomach
armed with
chitinous
or
shelly
plates
or
teeth,
as in
certain
insects
and
mollusks..
Taenidium
::
Taenidium
(n.) The
chitinous
fiber
forming
the
spiral
thread
of the
tracheae
of
insects.
See
Illust.
of
Trachea.
Wing
::
Wing (n.) One of the two pairs of upper
thoracic
appendages
of most
hexapod
insects.
They are
broad,
fanlike
organs
formed
of a
double
membrane
and
strengthened
by
chitinous
veins or
nervures..
Hydractinian
::
Hydractinian
(n.) Any
species
or
marine
hydroids,
of the genus
Hydractinia
and
allied
genera.
These
hydroids
form, by their
rootstalks,
a firm,
chitinous
coating
on
shells
and
stones,
and esp. on
spiral
shells
occupied
by
hermit
crabs.
See
Illust.
of
Athecata..
Endophragma
::
Endophragma
(n.) A
chitinous
structure
above the
nervous
cord in the
thorax
of
certain
Crustacea.
Urechitoxin
::
Urechitoxin
(n.) A
poisonous
glucoside
found
accompanying
urechitin,
and
extracted
as a
bitter
white
crystalline
substance..
Shell
::
Shell (n.) The hard
calcareous
or
chitinous
external
covering
of
mollusks,
crustaceans,
and some other
invertebrates.
In some
mollusks,
as the
cuttlefishes,
it is
internal,
or
concealed
by the
mantle.
Also, the hard
covering
of some
vertebrates,
as the
armadillo,
the
tortoise,
and the
like..
Hypoderma
::
Hypoderma
(n.) An inner
cellular
layer which lies
beneath
the
chitinous
cuticle
of
arthropods,
annelids,
and some other
invertebrates..
Entomolin
::
Entomolin
(n.) See
Chitin.
Chitinous
::
Chitinous
(a.)
Having
the
nature
of
chitin;
consisting
of, or
containing,
chitin..
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