created sense approved 壳质/殼質 · qiàozhì · chitin — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
壳质 / 殼質
qiàozhì
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