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pellicle

[ pel-i-kuhl ]

noun

  1. a thin skin or membrane; film; scum.
  2. Photography. a thin, partially reflective coating, as on a beam splitter or pellicle mirror.


pellicle

/ ˈpɛlɪkəl; pɛˈlɪkjʊlə /

noun

  1. a thin skin or film
  2. the hard protective outer layer of certain protozoans, such as those of the genus Paramecium
  3. botany
    1. the thin outer layer of a mushroom cap
    2. a growth on the surface of a liquid culture
  4. photog the thin layer of emulsion covering a plate, film, or paper
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Derived Forms

  • pellicular, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pellicle1

First recorded in 1535–45; from Latin pellicul(a), equivalent to pelli(s) “skin†+ -cula noun suffix ( -cle 1 )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pellicle1

C16: via French from Latin pellicula, from pellis skin
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Example Sentences

Lovers of home-brewed kombucha may actually be familiar with the raw nanocellulose material — it forms as a floating off-white structure called a pellicle.

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Before smoking, refrigerate the cheese uncovered the night before so it develops a "pellicle" — that sticky surface to which the smoke will adhere.

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"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live," writes Thoreau, "We know not where we are."

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

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Soon, however, the macerated roof-wall yields, leaving a reddish floor where the mucous membrane is exposed, denuded of its epithelial layer or covered with a new tender and hyper�mic pellicle.

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