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pellicle

/pel-i-kuhl/US // ˈpɛl ɪ kəl //UK // (ˈpɛlɪkəl) //

皮层,细胞膜,颗粒物,浆膜

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thin skin or membrane;film; scum.
    • : SCOBY.
    • : Photography. a thin, partially reflective coating, as on a beam splitter or pellicle mirror.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Mosses have the most simple seed, consisting only of the germ, without pellicle, and without lobes.

  • Prepare gelatine and agar plates in the usual way from such of these tubes as show pellicle formation.

  • The slight pellicle which coats over milk when it is warmed is of the same composition.

  • It is, in reality, a thin pellicle of semi-transparent horn secreted by the cells of the perioplic ring.

  • While the egg is fastened to the ovarium, it derives its nutriment from the vessel of the common pellicle.