Pellicle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thin skin or film, such as an organic membrane or liquid film.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A thin skin or film.
  • n. Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.
  • n. The skin of a mushroom cap.
  • n. The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.
  • n. The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.
  • n. A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.
  • n. the outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thin skin or film.
  • n. A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A little or thin skin; a cuticle; a film; a scum: as, the nacreous pellicle of some shells; the coaly pellicle of many fossil plants; the filmy pellicle or scum of infusions in which infusorial animalcules or microscopic fungi develop.
  • n. In chem., a thin crust formed on the surface of saline solutions when evaporated to a certain degree. This pellicle consists of crystallized saline particles.
  • n. In botany, same as cortical layer (Which see, under cortical)
  • n. In entomology, the skin of the subimago of an ephemerid.
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  • n. thin protective membrane in some protozoa
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    investment   
    Cross Reference
    proligerous pellicle    surface pellicle   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    film   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    maltose    dichromate    flexile    pushrod    rockfish    pleura    plating    hyperpigmentation    spath   
     
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