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As the organism’s carcass dries in the sun and the soft tissues decay, the blue color disappears, leaving the transparent chitinous float behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
Stomach-curdling by itself, it also happens to pose a major hurdle to defeating chitinous bloodsuckers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
The head of the trap-jaw ant is covered with a chitinous exoskeleton that muscles inside the head can bend like an archer’s bow.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 18, 2018
Additionally, a tongue-like organ called a radula, which bears chitinous tooth-like ornamentation, is present in many species, and serves to shred or scrape food.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
An air-tube consists of an epithelium of large polygonal cells with a thin basement-membrane externally and a chitinous layer internally, the last-named being continuous with the outer cuticle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
