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What is a cuticle?

What is a cuticle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
  2. The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  3. Dead or cornified epidermis.
  4. (botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
  5. A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
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Her list should include nail files, cotton balls, polish remover, cuticle pushers and nippers, and hand cream for everyone.
I mean, they're confiscating nail clippers and cuticle scissors and all of these things, and basically rousting people at the security gates.
In addition, the cuticle of the fingernails often gets very ragged, overgrown, and irregular.
In places, portions of the sternites can be seen where the tergal cuticle has broken away.
They first strip the thin cuticle layer from the middle rib of a young palm leaf, then soak the fibers for pliability.
With cuticle scissors, trim unruly or longer hairs above the upper brow line.

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