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chitin

DEFINITIONS OF: chitin

1

n a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi

Type of:
polyose, polysaccharide
any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules
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