"cuticular" meaning in English

See cuticular in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-cuticular.wav [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ) Etymology: From cuticula + -ar. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cuticula|ar}} cuticula + -ar Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} cuticular (not comparable)
  1. Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (in any sense).
    Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (skin next to a nail).
    Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: perionychial
    Sense id: en-cuticular-en-adj-en:concerning_a_cuticle Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ar, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ar: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 25 25 25
  2. Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (in any sense).
    Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (epidermis).
    Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: cutaneous
    Sense id: en-cuticular-en-adj-en:concerning_a_cuticle1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ar, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ar: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 25 25 25
  3. Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (in any sense).
    Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (outer layer of arthropod tissue).
    Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-cuticular-en-adj-en:concerning_a_cuticle1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ar, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ar: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 25 25 25
  4. Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (in any sense).
    Of, pertaining to, or being a cuticle (outer layer of plant tissue).
    Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-cuticular-en-adj-en:concerning_a_cuticle1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ar, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ar: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 25 25 25 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 25 25 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (of or pertaining to the cuticle): cuticular (Catalan), kutikulaarinen (Finnish), cuticulaire (French), cuticular (Portuguese), cuticular (Spanish)
Derived forms: cuticularized, endocuticular, epicuticular, exocuticular, intercuticular, intracuticular, noncuticular, pericuticular, precuticular, procuticular, subcuticular, transcuticular Disambiguation of 'of or pertaining to the cuticle': 25 25 25 25
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.