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Chitin :: Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin..

Subcorneous :: Subcorneous (a.) Situated under a horny part or layer.

Horny :: Horny (superl.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn..

Fulcrum :: Fulcrum (n.) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.

Aspalathus :: Aspalathus (n.) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.

Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..

Sapan Wood :: Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood..

Kerasine :: Kerasine (a.) Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

Horny :: Horny (superl.) Hard; callous.

Paragnathus :: Paragnathus (n.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids..

Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..

Corallum :: Corallum (n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral..

Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..

Waxwing :: Waxwing (n.) Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird..

Water Locust :: Water locust () A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

Spinous :: Spinosity (n.) The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Corneouss :: Corneouss (a.) Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

Spinulose :: Spinulescent (a.) Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Dicynodont :: Dicynodont (n.) One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India..

Chelonia :: Chelonia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix..

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