EXOSKELETON
\ˈɛksə͡ʊskˌɛlɪtən], \ˈɛksəʊskˌɛlɪtən], \ˈɛ_k_s_əʊ_s_k_ˌɛ_l_ɪ_t_ə_n]\
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The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
By Oddity Software
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The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
By Noah Webster.
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In anat. a term applied to all those structures which are produced by the hardening of the integument, as the shells of the crustacea, the scales and plates of fishes and reptiles: dermo-skeleton.
By Daniel Lyons
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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