What is "exoskeletal"

Usage examples of "exoskeletal".

Divine Plan, exoskeletal forms always become dominant within any biosphere, a complex association evolving between the patterns associated with the fundamental groups of arthropods, crustaceans, and mollusks.

There is no known instance of True Civilization accommodating an exoskeletal species, let alone any instanceother than the planet this satellite orbitsof a world in which a single exoskeletal species has become dominant of all others, incapable of harmony even within its own ranks.

Thomas climbed out of the bath, not caring that Field was almost as embarrassed by his naked presence as any exoskeletal bigot might have been.

Anybody knew that an exoskeletal life-form could not put on weight except from inside!

The Kamar Badlanders were smaller and more supple than other Kamarians, and their segmented exoskeletal chitin was thinner and of a lighter color, matching the hues of their home terrain.

Ssoroghod, eleven feet tall though she weighed no more than I did, armored in red exoskeletal plates fading to gray at the edges, and some prosthetic gear.

She put on a long glossy padded coatit looked segmented, exoskeletal, designed for the ocean floorand went out to teach her class in posture.

Molts crouched behind him, fear in their carriage though their exoskeletal faces were impassive.

Floyt asked himself what sense it would make for Mason to bring him all this way just to feed him to a big, brown-green exoskeletal thing with a fondness for computers.

First Councillor had altered his exoskeletal posture, skimming over to them like a swimmer.

I just had a problem combing brain and exoskeletal matter out of my hair.

Several of the hospital's top Diagnosticians had examined it, finding signs of strain in certain areas of the patient's body plating that partly explained its discomfort—a being who was largely exoskeletal, lazy, and something of a glutton could only put on weight from the inside.

The place looked much more normal toDukat, with the grayish faces of Cardassians and thechalky exoskeletal Jem Hadar rather than the soft,plain multihued faces of Terrans and Bajorans.