Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chitin

1 sense of chitin

Sense 1
chitin -- (a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi)
       => polysaccharide, polyose -- (any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules)