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Chitin

noun
1.
A tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi.



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... The alimentary canal of Amphioxus commences with an "oral cavity," not represented in our vertebrata, surrounded by a number of cirri, or tentacles, supported by a horny substance which seems to be chitin, a common skeletal material among invertebrates. A velum (v.) forms a curtain, perforated by the mouth and by two smaller hyoidean apertures, between the oral cavity and the pharynx (ph.). "Pharyux" is here used in a wider sense than ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells


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