a. [f. CUTICULA + -AR. Cf. F. cuticulaire.] Of or pertaining to a cuticle; of the nature of, or resembling, cuticle.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, VII. 94. The cuticular construction of the auricle.

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1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 39. Much used in cuticular Diseases.

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1708.  J. Keill, Anim. Secretion, 74. The Orifices of … the cuticular Glands.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 1. The presence of flowers … and of cuticular stomata.

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1880.  Huxley, Crayfish, i. 33. The cuticular skeleton of the crayfish.

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