cuticle
IPA: kjˈutʌkʌɫ
noun
- The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
- The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- Dead or cornified epidermis.
- (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
- A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
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Examples of "cuticle" in Sentences
- The cuticle is smooth.
- The cuticle is readily peeled from the cap.
- The cuticles are intact and are unidirectional.
- The exterior of the parasite is called the cuticle.
- The more acidic the protein is, the softer the cuticle.
- The two layers of the cuticle have different properties.
- The hair cuticle is the outermost part of the hair shaft.
- The next layer is the cortex and the outer layer is the cuticle.
- The waxy cuticle is deposited on the shell in the bird's oviduct.
- Insect wing membrane is made of cuticle, which is extracellular secretion.
- No calcified protaspis is known, the body is flattened and the cuticle is thin.
- Beneath the cuticle is the fibrous part, consisting of many cells closely packed together.
- When fully fattened, the thin cuticle, that is one of its characteristics, cracks, from the adipose distension beneath, exposing the fatty mass, which discharges a liquid oil from the adjacent tissues.
- Over the rete mucosum is spread a fine transparent membrane, called the cuticle, or scarf skin, which defends the organ of feeling from the action of the air, and other things which would irritate it too powerfully.
- When I asked my cousin (only family I still have there) why that was, she did some digging and found out that it's because American eggs are washed with some solution that removes the cuticle from the shell, and leaves the eggs really susceptible to bacteria.
- The authors, after investigation, are inclined to attribute the lustre of mercerised cotton to the absence of the cuticle, which is destroyed and removed in the process, partly by the chemical action of the alkali, and partly by the stretching at one or other stage of the process.
- The rind is hard; and the cuticle is a sort of soft, white paste, which has the taste of the best French rolls; but it must be eaten fresh, as it keeps only twenty-four hours, after which it becomes dry, sour and disagreeable; but, as a compensation, the trees are loaded with them eight months of the year.
- Hence when two plates of zinc and silver are thus brought in to the vicinity of each other, the plate of air between them, as they are not in adhesive contact, becomes like a charged coated jar; and if these two metallic plates are touched by your dry hands, they do not unite their electricities, as the dry cuticle is not
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