Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the endoskeleton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).

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Examples

  • His eyes widened, his mouth opened, white endoskeletal elements exposed.

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  • His eyes widened, his mouth opened, white endoskeletal elements exposed.

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  • His eyes widened, his mouth opened, white endoskeletal elements exposed.

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  • I sip my Chivas from the cap, listening to the shaking structure around us, the minimum ribbing, a sort of endoskeletal arch that makes every groaning noise in the hymnal of manned flight.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I sip my Chivas from the cap, listening to the shaking structure around us, the minimum ribbing, a sort of endoskeletal arch that makes every groaning noise in the hymnal of manned flight.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I sip my Chivas from the cap, listening to the shaking structure around us, the minimum ribbing, a sort of endoskeletal arch that makes every groaning noise in the hymnal of manned flight.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It's warm-blooded, endoskeletal, and mam-malian-a pseudo-marsupial, really-but it has a lot of legs and a magnificently extrudable whip of a tail, so the spider image sticks.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • Powerful, antagonistic, and crafty were the words that best described the endoskeletal space‑going AAnn.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Powerful, antagonistic, and crafty were the words that best described the endoskeletal space-going AAnn.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • The internal engineering and biochemistry of the body were very different from those of Earth's former oxygen-using endoskeletal organisms.

    The Nitrogen Fix Clement, Hal, 1922- 1980

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