Word Finder - pellicle

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A thin skin or film.

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A skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat to be smoked, improving the surface adhesion.

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Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.

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The skin of a mushroom cap.

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The outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.

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The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.

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The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.

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A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.

During this stage the cuticle draws away from the imaginal cuticle which is forming beneath, ultimately becoming separated as a thin transparent pellicle through which the form of the adult can be seen.

Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

Contrary to the habits of all other insects, there yet remains a pellicle that has to be shed, covering every part of the body.

In the variety C. purpurea, the leaves, as also the pellicle of the kernel and the husk of the nut, are purple, and in C. heterophylla they are thickly clothed with hairs.

Their different forms include the Cosford, which are thin-shelled and oblong; the Downton, or large square nut, having a lancinated husk; the white or Wrotham Park filbert; and the red hazel or filbert, the kernel of which has a red pellicle.

Mixed zoogloea found as a pellicle on the surface of vegetable infusions, &c.; it consists of various forms, and contains cocci (a) and rodlets, in series (b and c), &c. (x 540).

The body is bounded by a firm pellicle, often supplemented by an armour (" lorica ") of cuticular cellulose plates, with usually a marked longitudinal groove from which the anterior flagellum springs, and an oblique or spiral transverse groove for the second flagellum.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live.

This final moult is effected soon after the insect's appearance in the winged form; the creature seeks a temporary resting-place, the pellicle splits down the back, and the now perfect insect comes forth, often differing very greatly in colours and markings from the condition in which it was only a few moments before.

This micro-organism, which resembles ordinary yeast cells in appearance, forms a pellicle on the surface of wine, particularly when the latter is exposed to the air more than it should be, and its development is favoured by lack of alcohol.