pellicle
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Lovers of home-brewed kombucha may actually be familiar with the raw nanocellulose material — it forms as a floating off-white structure called a pellicle.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2023
A similar pellicle formed on our acid whey mixture.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2023
Protists that have a pellicle are surrounded by proteins.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The pellicle functions like a flexible coat of armor, preventing the protist from being torn or pierced without compromising its range of motion.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
P. umb. glabrous, greyish white, with a separable pellicle, at length striate to middle; s. fibrillosely striate, at length tawny. var.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
