chitinization: the process of depositing or filling with chitin.
Platelet: a little plate or sclerite of chitin in a membrane.
Yes, May, this little cast is made of chitin, and it will last a long time.
If you had no bones, you would be glad to have your skin hardened with chitin.
chitin, kī′tin, n. the substance which forms most of the hard parts of jointed footed animals.
The chitin armor of the whole body is specially heavy and strong, affording a great protection to the insect.
Its head is probably too thickly coated with chitin to excite their discharge.
One of these has been certainly identified as chitin or a closely similar substance.
The cuticle is a dead substance, and is composed in large part of chitin.
Its physical and chemical qualities seem to approach those of chitin.
1836, from French chitine, from Greek khiton "frock, tunic," of soldiers, "coat of mail," used metaphorically for "any coat or covering." "Probably an Oriental word" [Liddell & Scott]. Klein compares Hebrew kuttoneth, Aramaic kittana, Arabic kattan "linen."
chitin chi·tin (kīt'n)
n.
A tough, protective, semitransparent polysaccharide forming the principal component of arthropod exoskeletons and the cell walls of certain fungi.
