chitinous

It looked like a human skeleton - but dark and chitinous.

The chitinous shell, though, was harder than he had expected.

He rocked a complex rhythm among his five chitinous legs.

The neck was thick and continued the chitinous look.

Her chitinous face could show no sign of fatigue or refreshment, but she moved well.

She looked up at it then and, as always, was struck by the thing's polished, chitinous, beauty.

The chitinous appendage snapped shut just short of his right eye.

They're chitinous and they have a physiological hierarchy dating back millions of years.

"Now it is our turn," he said, hauling the struggling fish up to his chitinous mouth.

Hair had given way to the darker, more uniform pattern of chitinous shell.

At no time did the hermit himself come within range of the creature's chitinous weapons.

The chitinous green hexagons made Wesley think of a tile floor.

The chitinous black soldiers shot them down by the score, then by the hundreds.

The clash of chitinous armor came from the night.

The body is segmented and covered in a chitinous cuticle.

He moved his chitinous limbs in the gesture that served him as a shrug.

The chitinous object he had picked up now shook and quivered of itself.

He pointed toward it with a long, chitinous digit.

A new chitinous shell, much folded and compressed, forms beneath the old one.

"Like an old man damaged by radiation; you're just a hollow chitinous shell."

"But I don't want that, either; a chitinous shell and the rest.

A short length of corridor made of the same chitinous material led to another door.

Chitinous carapace-colored cherry red, though it looked nearly black in the darkness.

The chitinous external skeleton seems to be particularly responsive to the demands of evolution.