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

n. A thin skin or film.

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

n. The skin of a mushroom cap.

n. The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.

n. The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.

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

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

n. A thin skin or film.

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

n. 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.

n. 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.

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

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

n. thin protective membrane in some protozoa

"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."

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proligerous pellicle    surface pellicle   

pell    pellagra    pelisse    peltry    pelt    pellage   

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maltose    dichromate    flexile    pushrod    rockfish    pleura    plating    hyperpigmentation    spath