exoskeleton

How To Use exoskeleton In A Sentence

• At ecdysis, the animal sheds the old exoskeleton while absorbing large quantities of water to stretch the new exoskeleton.
• Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
• The two childhood friends say they first drew what they call a robotic exoskeleton "on the back of a beer mat" seven years ago. ARN News
• Upon ecdysis, a chitinous duplicature of the exoskeleton is shed and a growth band is added to the valves.
• Fish eat snails in their shells and hard-shelled crustacea as well as invertebrates with exoskeletons.
• They are distinguished by prominent keeled tergites, and legs with eight segments and well sclerotised exoskeleton.
• Instead of the familiar smooth blue-green, her exoskeleton was a rich, deep purple, the chitin worn rough and pebbly in places. Dirge
• By studying shrimp at different times during the 5 day molt cycle, we observed the cyclic increase of tyrosine within the hemocytes with a maximum during days 1 and 5, when quinones are necessary for tanning the exoskeleton.
• Now, Rome—not the society of people in the city, but their collective exoskeleton, the city itself—is a sublime and inordinately complicated object lesson in the substantiality of buildings and other made things, in their resistance to abstraction. The Forever City
• The chemical, marketed under the name Calicide, acts by preventing the formation of chitin, a key component of the sea-louse's exoskeleton, but also important in the life cycles of scallops, mussels and lobsters.