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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail
noun the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates
noun hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
originLearned borrowing from Latin cutīcula (“cuticle, skin”). Doublet of cuticula.
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