CHITIN as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a tough semitransparent horny substance
   • the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi
   Hypernyms(s) chitin is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • polysaccharide (what does polysaccharide mean?)
   • polyose (what does polyose mean?)