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Uncinus :: Uncinus (n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.

Hypoderma :: Hypoderma (n.) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates..

Odontophore :: Odontophore (n.) A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula..

Theca :: Theca (n.) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.

Taenidium :: Taenidium (n.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.

Endophragma :: Endophragma (n.) A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.

Sclerite :: Sclerite (n.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria..

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

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..

Nervure :: Nervure (n.) One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests..

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..

Obtected :: Obtected (a.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..

Parapleura :: Parapleura (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

Chitinous :: Chitinous (a.) Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin..

Radula :: Radula (n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore..

Periostracum :: Periostracum (n.) A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; -- called also epidermis.

Tubulicole :: Tubulicole (n.) Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.

Hair :: Hair (n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth..

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..

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