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Definition of Exoskeletons
1. exoskeleton [n] - See also: exoskeleton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exoskeletons
Literary usage of Exoskeletons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of Animal Life: A Series of Laboratory Exercises for the Use of High by Herbert Eugene Walter, Worrallo Whitney, Frederic Colby Lucas (1900)
"A STUDY OP VERTEBRATE exoskeletons. A. The Scales of the Perch. 1. Are the scales
embedded in the skin or do they lie upon its surface ? 2. ..."
2. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1913)
"young alike are swept seaward by the swollen rivers, which in their bottom portions
will roll along sands and pebbles, while the Eurypterid exoskeletons and ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Contribution 141, Geosciences Department, University of Texas, Dallas. 3 June
1970 • Scleractinian Coral exoskeletons: Surface Microarchitecture and ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"If the development of exoskeletons, hard parts, hinges and bony or chitinous
coverings, is a mark of advanced biogenetic age, then as between two groups of ..."
5. The Physiology of the Invertebrata by Arthur Bower Griffiths (1892)
"But this power of secreting exoskeletons is not confined to the Mollusco,; even
in the Protozoa calcareous and siliceous* I exoskeletons are secreted by the ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"The hard parts, exoskeletons, of Crustacea contain varying intermixtures of
calcite and phosphate of lime. The bryozoans have cases composed of a mixture of ..."
7. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"narrow our point of view to the MOLLUSCA, the development of hard shells, or
exoskeletons, hence the sand-burrowing, rock- boring, rock-clinging instincts ..."
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