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  • adjective Consisting of, or made from keratin

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Examples

  • And I, helplessly impaled upon it's keratinous trident!

    Grade A Twats juliette 2009

  • One bony claw of Hagryphus preserves the impression of the keratinous fingernail-like that would have covered the claw in life.

    Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives 2006

  • While the bony core is unforked, its keratinous covering is forked

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Though not all Paini have muscular forearms combined with keratinous spines, like coarse sandpaper, on their chests and forearms, those who live in fast-flowing streams do, evidently to prevent the slimy female from being whisked away during the sometimes hours-long amplexus required for the female to ovulate.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • While the bony core is unforked, its keratinous covering is forked

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

    AOL News 2009

  • Parsons also illustrated the dermal armour of this new species based on the theory by Museum of the R.ckies paleontologist John R. Horner that there was an outer keratinous sheathing on it as found in modern turtle shells and bird beaks.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Over the next few years, they retrieved more of the now nearly complete skull along with skin plates, rib fragments, a vertebra and a possible limb bone from the dinosaur species. plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

    Livescience.com 2009

  • Over the next few years, they retrieved more of the now nearly complete skull along with skin plates, rib fragments, a vertebra and a possible limb bone from the dinosaur species. plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

    Livescience.com 2009

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