Definitions for cuticle

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cuticle cu·ti·cle

Spelling: [kyoo-ti-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈkyu tɪ kəl/

Cuticle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in cuticle (cceiltu).

Definitions for cuticle

noun

1. the nonliving epidermis that surrounds the edges of the fingernail or toenail.
2. the epidermis.
3. a superficial integument, membrane, or the like.
4. Also called cuticula. Zoology. the outer, noncellular layer of the arthropod integument, composed of a mixture of chitin and protein and commonly containing other hardening substances as well.
5. Botany. a very thin hyaline film covering the surface of plants, derived from the outer surfaces of the epidermal cells.

Origin of cuticle

1605-15; Latin cutīcula the skin, equivalent to cuti(s) skin, cutis + -cula -cle¹

Examples for cuticle

In nearly all, the cuticle peeled off as in other scarlet fevers.

As the disease subsides, the cuticle comes off (desquamates) in patches.

The pileus is without a cuticle, consisting of interwoven fibres.

I find that blood follows the scalpel as I cut through the cuticle.

During a moult the cuticle of the head is cast separately from that of the body.

It takes three or four pages to bore up through the cuticle.

By mechanical attraction, as when water softens the cuticle.

The exterior of these is called the cuticle, epidermis, or scarf-skin.

Note the thin transparent covering of the body, the cuticle.

The horn of the hoof is merely a modification of the cuticle (scarf skin).