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chitineux

French, adjective/ki.ti.nø/

chitineux is a French adjective meaning “chitinous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui appartient à la chitine ; qui est de la nature de la chitine”.

What does chitineux mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    chitinous

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui appartient à la chitine ; qui est de la nature de la chitine.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of chitineux

  • chitineuse feminine
  • chitineuses feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chitineux?

  • /ki.ti.nø/
  • \ki.ti.nø\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to chitineux

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is chitineux in French?

chitineux appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).