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| carapace |
a horny covering or shield on the back of certain animals such as turtles and crustaceans. |
| feather |
one of the structures forming the plumage of birds, consisting of a hollow, tapering, horny shaft growing from the skin and bearing a web of slender, parallel, interlocked barbs on either side. [1/12 definitions] |
| hagfish |
a small eellike marine fish with horny teeth and a round, jawless, sucking mouth. |
| hawksbill |
a sea turtle with a hawklike beak and a horny shell that is a source of tortoiseshell. |
| hoof |
the hard horny covering that encases the foot of certain mammals such as horses, pigs, and deer. [1/5 definitions] |
| hornbill |
any of several tropical birds having a large curved bill, usu. with a horny bulge. |
| keratosis |
any disease of the skin characterized by horny growths. [2 definitions] |
| nail |
a horny, natural growth that partially covers the end of a finger or toe; fingernail or toenail. [1/7 definitions] |
| pinfeather |
an undeveloped feather just emerging through the skin of a bird, and often still encased in a horny sheath. |
| platypus |
an egg-laying mammal of Australia and Tasmania that has webbed feet for swimming, a broad, horny bill like that of a duck, and a long, flat tail, and that lives in and near water. |
| scute |
any external horny or bony plate, as on the shell of a turtle, that serves as protection. |
| scutum |
a heavy, horny plate on certain animals such as the turtle or armadillo; scute. [1/2 definitions] |
| theca |
in biology, a case, covering, or sac that encloses an organ, part, or entire organism, such as the horny covering of an insect pupa or the spore case of a moss capsule. |
| tortoiseshell |
the horny, mottled, yellowish-brown shell of certain turtles, esp. the hawksbill, or imitations of this material, used to make combs, eyeglass frames, and decorative objects. |
| whalebone |
a durable, horny, elastic substance that grows in plates or strips in the upper jaw of certain whales, serving to filter plankton from water passing through the whale's mouth. [1/2 definitions] |
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