MEANING
Composed of or rich in keratin.
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- keratinous claw
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A keratinous claw scraped the panel.
The growth ended in a keratinous sheath.
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- keratinous
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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