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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also
keratode . - adjective (Zoöl.) Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.
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- adjective medicine Relating to or marked by
keratosis ;horny .
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Oscar Schmidt has already pointed this out in the siliceous sponges and keratose sponges; and I, in my monograph, in three volumes, on the Calcareous
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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