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pellicle
[ pel-i-kuhl ]
pellicle
/ ˈpɛlɪkəl; pɛˈlɪkjʊlə /
noun
- a thin skin or film
- the hard protective outer layer of certain protozoans, such as those of the genus Paramecium
- botany
- the thin outer layer of a mushroom cap
- a growth on the surface of a liquid culture
- photog the thin layer of emulsion covering a plate, film, or paper
Derived Forms
- pellicular, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··· [p, uh, -, lik, -y, uh, -ler], ···ٱ [p, uh, -, lik, -y, uh, -lit, -leyt], adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pellicle1
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.
Before smoking, refrigerate the cheese uncovered the night before so it develops a "pellicle" — that sticky surface to which the smoke will adhere.
"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live," writes Thoreau, "We know not where we are."
Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.
Oct. 4th, aspect that of very severe sickness; profuse discharge from nostrils; fauces of a deep red color, and a diphtheritic pellicle over tonsils and uvula; tumefaction along the sides of the neck; temp.
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