Usually means: Protective layer around nail base.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuticle: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuticle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuticle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuticle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuticle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cuticle, cuticle: Wordnik
  7. cuticle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cuticle, Cuticle: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cuticle: Wiktionary
  10. cuticle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cuticle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cuticle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cuticle: Dictionary.com
  14. cuticle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cuticle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Cuticle (disambiguation), Cuticle (hair), Cuticle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cuticle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cuticle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cuticle: Rhymezone
  20. Cuticle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cuticle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. cuticle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cuticle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cuticle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cuticle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cuticle: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cuticle (nail), cuticle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuticle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Cuticle: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  7. Cuticle (nail), cuticle: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  5. cuticle: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cuticle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cuticle: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
noun:  The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
noun:  Dead or cornified epidermis.
noun:  (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
noun:  A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

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