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CUTICULA (cuticulae)
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Irregular inflected form: cuticulae
Dictionary entry overview: What does cuticula mean?
• CUTICULA (noun)
The noun CUTICULA has 1 sense:
1. the outer body wall of an insect
Familiarity information: CUTICULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The outer body wall of an insect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("cuticula" is a kind of...):
carapace; cuticle; shell; shield (hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles)
Derivation:
cuticular (of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula)
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