cuticle

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Normally referred to as the cuticle, but it is in fact not the true cuticle.

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  1. noun The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; epidermis.
  2. noun The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  3. noun Dead or cornified epidermis.
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  • Lacey chewed at her cuticle, asking, "Is Mark going to be okay I don't know, sweetie." —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
  • Tess knew what a cuticle was, but she had never understood what was meant by pushing one back. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
  • Though the soft-body robot prototypes won't be made with a material that can mimic all the properties of the natural cuticle, the group is aiming to make a soft-bodied robot using a biodegradable material, such as silk. —  Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox
  • They will just grow out from the cuticle area onward and then you blend it into the bottom.
  • Also apply cuticle oil at night and when giving your self a manicure as a way to help condition the cuticle area and keep your cuticles soft. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Latin cutīcula, diminutive of cutis, skin; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cuticule = Spanish cuticula = Portuguese cuticula = Italian cuticola, from Latin cuticula, diminutive of cutis, the skin: see cutis.
 

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/ˈkjutɪkl/
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