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  • adjective Covered with cuticle

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Examples

  • The _Polyporus_ had then invaded the hollow, and the acorns, and had dissolved and destroyed the cellular and starchy contents of the latter, leaving only the cuticularized and corky shells, looking exactly like fossil eggs in the matrix.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

  • Hence the conclusion that small leaves, abundant rootstocks and short [451] stems, a dense foliage, a strongly cuticularized epidermis, few and narrow air-cavities in the tissues and all the long range of characteristics of typical desert-plants are not a simple result of the influence of climate and soil.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • a double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered cellulose, the endospore or intine, and a tough outer cuticularized exospore or extine.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

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