Pellicle Definition

Pellicle Sentence Examples

• During this stage the cuticle draws away from the imaginal cuticle which is forming beneath, ultimately becoming separated as a thin transparent pellicle through which the form of the adult can be seen.

• Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

• Contrary to the habits of all other insects, there yet remains a pellicle that has to be shed, covering every part of the body.

• In the variety C. purpurea, the leaves, as also the pellicle of the kernel and the husk of the nut, are purple, and in C. heterophylla they are thickly clothed with hairs.

• Their different forms include the Cosford, which are thin-shelled and oblong; the Downton, or large square nut, having a lancinated husk; the white or Wrotham Park filbert; and the red hazel or filbert, the kernel of which has a red pellicle.