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Cuticle Common

Cuticle has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail

2

the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates

3

hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

4

The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
skin stratum scute
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
mantle cuticula
Rhyming Words
cle icle secle macle cycle sicle socle uncle zocle circle sarcle boucle surcle guncle mascle oracle acicle icicle nuncle muscle
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