exoskeleton

English

Etymology

From exo- +‎ skeleton.

Noun

exoskeleton (plural exoskeletons)

1. (anatomy) A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.

Derived terms

• exoskeletal

Translations

hard outer structure

• Arabic: هَيْكَل خَارِجِيّ (haykal ḵārijiyy)
• Asturian: exocadarma f, exoesqueletu (ast) m
• Breton: ezrelegenn
• Catalan: exosquelet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外骨骼 (zh) (wàigǔgé)

• Czech: exoskelet m
• Esperanto: eksoskeleto
• Estonian: välisskelett, eksoskelett
• Finnish: ulkoinen tukiranka (fi)
• French: exosquelette (fr) m
• German: Exoskelett (de) n
• Greek: εξωσκελετός m (exoskeletós)
• Ido: exoskeleto
• Indonesian: rangka luar, eksoskeleton
• Italian: esoscheletro (it) m
• Japanese: 外骨格 (ja) (がいこっかく, gaikokkaku)
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• Korean: 외골격 (oegolgyeok)
• Lithuanian: egzoskeletas m
• Maori: angawaho
• Polish: szkielet zewnętrzny m, egzoszkielet m
• Portuguese: exosqueleto (pt) m, exoesqueleto (pt) m
• Russian: экзоскеле́т (ru) m (ekzoskelét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: egzoskelet (sh) m

• Slovak: exoskelet m
• Slovene: zunanji skelet, eksoskelet
• Spanish: exoesqueleto (es) m, dermatoesqueleto m
• Tagalog: kalansay-panlabas
• Turkish: dış iskelet
• Vietnamese: bộ xương ngoài

See also

• endoskeleton