Definitionn. thin protective membrane in some protozoa
Last update: August 13, 2015
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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. [Please select]
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At first, we could observe no external organization: the worm was entirely concealed from us by its pellicle. [Please select]
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The ragged pellicle remained in folds on different parts of the body, and then fell off. [Please select]
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On the black, liquid honey a wrinkled pellicle is floating; and on this pellicle, motionless, is a yellow louse. [Please select]
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The pellicle is the empty envelope of the Anthophora's egg; the louse is a Meloe-larva. [Please select]
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In the purple-filbert the husk is purple, and in the frizzled-filbert it is curiously laciniated; in the red-filbert the pellicle of the kernel is red. [Please select]
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An egg was exposed to the sun on a glass slider; and, with a good magnifier, nine rings of the worm were perceptible within the transparent pellicle. [Please select]
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