Significados de horny substance en inglés

This horny substance is what makes the body of the insect so stiff.

It incloses sometimes one, two, and three kernels, of a peculiar horny substance.

It would be soft but for the chitin, as the horny substance is called.

The rings are covered with a hard, horny substance.

The stem is not woody, but almost of a horny substance, like the stem of the Gorgons.

Well, it is well covered by this horny substance called chitin, and then it is very active.

Pure wool consists of a horny substance, containing both nitrogen and sulphur, and dissolves in a potash solution.

By wool fiber is understood the horny substance resembling hair, with the difference that the former has no marrowy tissue.

Whalebone is a horny substance taken from the animal's jaw, and is worth from three dollars to eight dollars per pound.

The thick, hard, horny substance must be separated from the jaw; and it sometimes turns the edge of the axe like iron would.

Again, certain species of worms blend the animal with the insect tribe, those which are covered with a horny substance unite them with the crustaceae.

For hair, like all horny substances, is a dead product of external secretion by the animal organism.