Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind.
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Exoskeleton
Synonyms for "exoskeleton" (5 found)
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4 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 34 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- huidskelet noun (hard outer structure)
Arabic
1 entries- هَيْكَل خَارِجِيّ noun (hard outer structure)
Asturian
2 entries- exocadarma noun (hard outer structure)
- exoesqueletu noun (hard outer structure)
Breton
1 entries- ezrelegenn noun (hard outer structure)
Catalan
1 entries- exosquelet noun (hard outer structure)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 外骨骼 noun (hard outer structure)
Czech
1 entries- exoskelet noun (hard outer structure)
Esperanto
1 entries- eksoskeleto noun (hard outer structure)
Estonian
2 entries- eksoskelett noun (hard outer structure)
- välisskelett noun (hard outer structure)
Finnish
1 entries- ulkoinen tukiranka noun (hard outer structure)
French
1 entries- exosquelette noun (hard outer structure)
German
1 entries- Exoskelett noun (hard outer structure)
Greek
1 entries- εξωσκελετός noun (hard outer structure)
Hungarian
2 entries- (külső/viselhető/hordható) robotváz noun (hard outer structure)
- exoszkeleton noun (hard outer structure)
Ido
1 entries- exoskeleto noun (hard outer structure)
Indonesian
2 entries- eksoskeleton noun (hard outer structure)
- rangka luar noun (hard outer structure)
Italian
1 entries- esoscheletro noun (hard outer structure)
Japanese
1 entries- 外骨格 noun (hard outer structure)
Korean
1 entries- 외골격 noun (hard outer structure)
Latin
1 entries- exosceletus noun (hard outer structure)
Lithuanian
1 entries- egzoskeletas noun (hard outer structure)
Māori
1 entries- angawaho noun (hard outer structure)
Polish
2 entries- egzoszkielet noun (hard outer structure)
- szkielet zewnętrzny noun (hard outer structure)
Portuguese
2 entries- exoesqueleto noun (hard outer structure)
- exosqueleto noun (hard outer structure)
Romanian
1 entries- exoschelet noun (hard outer structure)
Russian
1 entries- экзоскеле́т noun (hard outer structure)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- egzoskelet noun (hard outer structure)
Slovak
1 entries- exoskelet noun (hard outer structure)
Slovene
2 entries- eksoskelet noun (hard outer structure)
- zunanji skelet noun (hard outer structure)
Spanish
2 entries- dermatoesqueleto noun (hard outer structure)
- exoesqueleto noun (hard outer structure)
Tagalog
1 entries- kalansay-panlabas noun (hard outer structure)
Turkish
1 entries- dış iskelet noun (hard outer structure)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bộ xương ngoài noun (hard outer structure)
Welsh
2 entries- allsgerbwd noun (hard outer structure)
- sgerbwd allanol noun (hard outer structure)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The exoskeleton is worn on the user’s back and around the stomach.
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Arthropods must shed the exoskeleton in order to grow or assume a new form.
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The 17-year-old athlete climbed into a specially designed exoskeleton for the first time in late April, after becoming an in-patient at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago.
Source: tatoeba (12350045)
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