qiào​zhì

chitin

  • created sense approved 壳质/殼質 · qiào​zhì · chitin — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    壳质 / 殼質

    qiào​zhì

    chitin

    chitin; the tough substance forming the outer skeleton of insects and crustaceans

    壳 (literal) → 壳/殼 · qiào · crust 质 (literal) → 质/質 · zhì · substance

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense