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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, same as cortical layer(which see, under cortical).
  • noun In infusorians, the cuticle.

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  • The Latin pellicula, meaning “a little skin,” as in the peeling from a fruit, was passed down to Romance languages in various forms to mean “film,” including, in some cases, the “Me Tarzan, you Jane” kind of film.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The Latin pellicula, meaning “a little skin,” as in the peeling from a fruit, was passed down to Romance languages in various forms to mean “film,” including, in some cases, the “Me Tarzan, you Jane” kind of film.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In their article about the hotel heiress, they described Ms. Hilton's famous X-rated Web video as pellicula in interrete vulgate de coitu Paridis

    Veni, Vidi, Wiki: 2007

  • Persoon, in his description of areca catechu, makes the following observation: E fructu ab extima pellicula libero, simul cum foliis piperis betle, addito pauxillo calcis ex ostreis, fit masticatorium, quod Indiani continue volvunt in ore, ut malus anhelitus corrigatur, et dentes ac stomachus roborentur.

    Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

  • Curtis; quia pellicula imminuti sunt; quia Moses Rex

    Hudibras Samuel Butler 1646

  • Zonagen was founded more than twenty years ago to try to develop birth control methods based on modification of the zona pellicula-a part of the ovum.

    pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009

  • Zonagen would not develop any commercial product from research relating to the zona pellicula-despite naming itself after it.

    pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009

  • Zonagen would not develop any commercial product from research relating to the zona pellicula-despite naming itself after it.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Zonagen was founded more than twenty years ago to try to develop birth control methods based on modification of the zona pellicula-a part of the ovum.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Quidfi dicamus proxime deri - uari a Choro, Mufico inftrumento, quod vt notat S. Hiero - nymus Epiftola ad Dardanum, ex pelle formatum, ex vria - parte per foramen aerem concipiens, per aliam cnm fono emittit s quiafimiliter ad continendum quodintra concipi - tur, quselibet earum fit difpofita pellicula?

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

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