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单词 cuticle
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cuticlen.

/ˈkjuːtɪk(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1600s cuticule.
Etymology: < Latin cutīcula, diminutive of cutis the skin. Boyle has cuticule (quot. 1686 at sense 1a), which is the form in French.
1.
a. The epidermis n. or scarf-skin of the body.
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the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [noun] > specific layers
epiderma1582
outskin1583
cutis1605
cuticle1615
scarf-skin1615
cuticula1621
epidermis1626
flesh side1630
derma1706
scarfy skin1744
rete mucosum1754
hypoderma1826
chorion1828
dermis1830
corium1835
derm1835
epiderm1835
flesh1839
rete1842
grain1851
hypoderm1855
stratum corneum1857
grain-side1858
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 61 The Scarfe-skin or Cuticle being voide of sense itselfe.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 70 The Cuticle, which the Greekes call Epidermis, because it runnes vppon the surface of the true skinne.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 200 The Cuticule or Scarf-skin.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 44 Let us consider, how we can separate the Cuticle from the true Cutis.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 102/2 The cuticle of these animals [i.e. amphibia] is frequently shed.
b. Applied to other superficial skins or integuments; e.g. the transparent membrane which envelops annelids.
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B8 Under it [sc. the tongue of serpents] is a cuticle, which like a vesicle covereth the teeth.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) xii. 278 The shaft of a hair of the head consists of a central pith..of a cortical substance surrounding this..and of an outer cuticle.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 198 The cuticle [of the earthworm] is thin, transparent, and variable in thickness in different regions of the body.
c. The cell-wall of Infusoria.
d. The dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail. Also attributive.
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the world > life > the body > nail > [noun] > parts of nail
root end1675
lunula1828
eponychium1885
cuticle1907
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 538/1 Cuticle knife, ivory handle.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 538/2 Cuticle scissors... Cuticle cream for softening the skin at base of nail.
1919 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Jan. 67/2 Cutex, the Cuticle Remover, comes in 35c, 65c and $1.25 bottles.
1962 Woman 1 Dec. 9/2 Every night, take care of your cuticles.
1962 Woman 1 Dec. 9/2 Apply cuticle cream.
1966 Vogue Nov. 61/2 Everything needed for a manicure..cuticle remover, orange stick, emery board.
2. Botany. Formerly, the primary integumentary tissue or epidermis; now, a superficial film formed of the cutinized outer layers of the superficial walls of the epidermal cells.The later usage was introduced by Ad. Brongniart ( Ann. des Sci. Nat., Sér. 2, I. 65). It appears in English in Henfrey's transl. of von Mohl's Vegetable Cell 1852, p. 34.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > epidermis or cuticle
skina1398
cuticle1672
epidermis1813
epiderm1835
cortex1875
hypoderma1877
tapetum1882
sheath1884
hypodermis1898
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 37 That extream thin Cuticle which is spred over the Lobes of the Seed.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 19 The cuticle is formed so as to accommodate itself..to the natural growth of the plant.
1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §1 The presence of a kind of skin or cuticle, which envelops the whole.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 29 Epidermis, outer skin, is the name given to the layer of cells which is covered by and produces the cuticle.
3. transferred. ‘A thin skin formed on the surface of any liquor’ (Johnson); a film or thin coating.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > thin
skina1475
weba1475
film1577
cuticle1658
cuticula1662
surface film1841
skim1951
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 314 This [salt] being boyled to a Cuticle will shoot like to any other Salt.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 34 Without breaking thorow the tender cuticle and film of so brittle and thin a substance [an air-bubble].
a1727 I. Newton Opticks (1730) iii. i. 363 When any saline Liquor is evaporated to..Cuticle and let cool, the Salt concretes in regular Figures.
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