Definition of Chitinoid

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chitinoid

chit chats
chital
chitals
chitchat
chitchats
chitchatted
chitchatting
chitenge
chitenges
chitin synthase
chitinase
chitinization
chitinizations
chitinlike
chitinoid (current term)
chitinolysis
chitinolytic
chitinous
chitins
chitlin
chitling
chitlings
chitlins
chitobiose
chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferase
chitobiosylpyrophosphoryldolichol synthase
chitodextrinase
chiton
chitons

Literary usage of Chitinoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... an elastic chitinoid investment, pseudopodia more or less branched, ... a test either chitinoid and then flexible or rigid, in some incrusted with ..."

2. Synopsis of the Fresh-water Rhizopods by Romyn Hitchcock, Joseph Leidy (1881)
"... 16 Shell compressed pyriform, of thin, square chitinoid plates, Quadrula, 19 Shell compressed pyriform, colorless, of oval or circular or angular disks, ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"... chitinoid bars or hooks, which serve as insertions for the muscles of the suckers, and thus increase their efficiency. The mouth is invariably present ..."

4. A treatise on zoology. by E. Ray Lankester (1901)
"... the suckers are strengthened by a special development of the cuticle to form a "chitinoid" skeleton (the substance is soluble in 35 per cent KHO, ..."

5. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"An amoeba-like organism enclosed in a chitinoid shell that is variable in shape, but more or less campanulate or dome-shaped, and that has a circular, ..."

6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"... observation of Schultze would tend to indicate, there docs not appear to be a single important character, either as regards the chitinoid shell or the ..."

7. The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa by James Cash, John Hopkinson, George Herbert Wailes (1905)
"Test sub-orbicular or hemispherical, chitinoid, with sand-grains or other extraneous matter ... Test membranous, composed of transparent chitinoid material, ..."

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