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Definition of Cuticula
1. Noun. The outer body wall of an insect.
Definition of Cuticula
1. Noun. (context: zoology botany) A tough protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants; cuticle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cuticula
1. the outer hard covering of an insect [n -LAE]
Medical Definition of Cuticula
1. Synonym: cuticle. Synonym: epidermis. Origin: L. Cuticle (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuticula
Literary usage of Cuticula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower (1906)
"cuticula COLORS. species," and are developed in a short time—one or two hours
after hatching. Almost as soon as the embryo emerges from the egg the primary ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The cuticula.—Outside of the hypodermis there is a firm layer, which protects
... The cuticula is produced by the hypodermis ; the method of its production ..."
3. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"Tbe cuticula.—Outside is a firm layer, which pro as a support for the inter ...
The cuticula con an outer, usually thinner, pigments that produce the of the ..."
4. Investigations representing the departments by University of Chicago, E.F. Young, John Dewey (1903)
"canals which pass upward from the hypodermis to the primary cuticula (PI. IIl, Fig.
64); it is along these that the secreted granules pass to the primary ..."
5. Investigations Representing the Departments: Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"64) ; it is along these that the secreted granules pass to the primary cuticula
when pigmentation begins. The development of the color differs in no ..."
6. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The various elements of the cuticula originate in certain cells in the longitudinal
fields, which early in the development of the embryo become separated ..."
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