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cuticle

From the Latin cuticula, which means ‘little skin.’ It is the external layer which protects the ground part of plants or the organs of certain animals. It differs according to their origin, their structure, their function and their chemical composition. In arthropods, the cuticle designates the external layer secreted by the epidermis which constitutes its external skeleton.

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