chitinous

1. 1.

   of or resembling chitin

Questions about chitinous

What does chitinous mean?

chitinous means "of or resembling chitin".

How many syllables are in chitinous?

chitinous has 3 syllables: chi-ti-nous. The stress falls on "chi". In IPA it is /ˈkaɪtənəs/.

Is chitinous a common word?

chitinous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.