Pellicle

Word PELLICLE
Character 8
Hyphenation pel li cle
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pellicle"

What do we mean by pellicle?

A thin skin or film, such as an organic membrane or liquid film. noun

In entomology, the skin of the subimago of an ephemerid. noun

A little or thin skin; a cuticle; a film; a scum: as, the nacreous pellicle of some shells; the coaly pellicle of many fossil plants; the filmy pellicle or scum of infusions in which infusorial animalcules or microscopic fungi develop. noun

In chem., a thin crust formed on the surface of saline solutions when evaporated to a certain degree. This pellicle consists of crystallized saline particles. noun

In botany, same as cortical layer (Which see, under cortical) noun

A thin skin or film. noun

A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution. noun

A thin skin or film. noun

Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms. noun

The skin of a mushroom cap. noun

The growth on the surface of a liquid culture. noun

The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film. noun

A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover. noun

The outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off. noun

Thin protective membrane in some protozoa noun

A thin skin or film.

A skin or coating of proteins on the surface of meat to be smoked, improving the surface adhesion.

Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.

The skin of a mushroom cap.

The outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.

The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.

The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.

A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pellicle

The word "pellicle" in example sentences

This inner skin is called the pellicle - sometimes it will come off along with the outer skin but if it doesn't just place the chestnut back in the boiling water and let it soak for a few minutes for it to soften. ❋ Haalo (2008)

Caseine is insoluble in water, but dissolves readily in alkalies; its solution is not coagulated by heat, but, on evaporation, becomes covered with a thin pellicle, which is renewed as often as it is removed. ❋ Thomas Anderson (N/A)

The cap was covered with a sticky, skin-like layer, called the pellicle or cuticle, both terms having the same meaning. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

Perhaps this bit of folk-lore was suggested by the shape of the pellicle, which is that of a heart. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The pellicle is the empty envelope of the Anthophora's egg; the louse is a Meloe-larva. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Then beneath this pellicle, which is so delicate that it can hardly bear the most cautious touch, we see a soft, white mass taking shape, ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Detween this membrane atul the pellicle was the fame red liquor, but lefs in quantity than was contained ii\ the former ftage. ❋ Unknown (1791)

That fermentation promotes the drying and loosens the silvery pellicle which is attached to the bean inside the parchment, and which cannot be entirely got rid of in any other way. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

But this "pellicle" of Professor Bastian is not mere structureless matter, any more than the "bioplast" of Professor Beale. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

Professor Bastian is forced to go back of his infusorial forms and fungus-germs to a microscopical "pellicle," from which he admits they are ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

It is acclimatized to treat assorted kinds of infections, like appreciation, respiratory, and pellicle infections. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

He often kissed the little naked feet the toes of which, covered with a pellicle through which the blood was seen, were like rosebuds. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Those are clandestine instances which exhibit some feeble and low degree of consistency in a fluid: as a bubble of water, which is a sort of consistent pellicle of determined figure, made of the body of the water. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A somewhat similar instance is that of children's looking glasses, which little boys make on rushes with spittle, where also there is seen a consistent pellicle of water. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I remember being assured by a person of veracity that he himself under an operation for the cataract, when a small silver needle was inserted within the first coat of the eye in order to remove the pellicle of the cataract and push it into a corner, saw most distinctly the needle passing over the very pupil. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mparia, the island at the confluence of the Chobe, which is composed of trap, having crystals of quartz in it coated with a pellicle of green copper ore. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The grand old Mosibe, a tree yielding a bean with a thin red pellicle, said to be very fattening, had probably seen two hundred summers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When the fish is hung and allowed to drip dry, the sticky layer of dissolved myosin on the surface forms a shiny gel or pellicle that will give the smoked fish an attractive golden sheen. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

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