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Two pencils stuck out at forty-five degree angles from his hedgelike natural, pruned to topiary perfection and so bulbous that, along with his dark, chitinous skin and his sunglasses with huge brown convex lenses, he had the look of an undersized mock-up of a movie monster--the grasshopper that spritzed on Las Vegas. Latticeworks that look like densely packed bubbles surrounded by a chitinous solid use both interference and scattering to produce an opal-like iridescence. As the continuously expanding body of the flea (the volume increases by a factor of roughly 2,000) consists of rather smooth intersegmental skin and newly formed chitinous clasps, the embedded flea fulfills the requirement of a structural matrix to which microorganisms could easily adhere (32). |
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n, mollusk (from Greek khit