EXOSKELETON
\ˈɛksə͡ʊskˌɛlɪtən], \ˈɛksəʊskˌɛlɪtən], \ˈɛ_k_s_əʊ_s_k_ˌɛ_l_ɪ_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXOSKELETON
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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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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1. All hard parts, such as hair, teeth, nails, feathers, dermal plates, scales, etc., developed from the ectoderm or mesoderm in vertebrates. 2. The outer chitinous envelope of an insect.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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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 Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In anat., the hardened superficial tissues of external protection, as the crusts of crabs, the plates of reptiles, and the scales of fishes.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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