noun. A thin skin or film, such as an organic membrane or liquid film.

noun. In entomology, the skin of the subimago of an ephemerid.

noun. A little or thin skin; a cuticle; a film; a scum: as, the nacreous pellicle of some shells; the coaly pellicle of many fossil plants; the filmy pellicle or scum of infusions in which infusorial animalcules or microscopic fungi develop.

noun. In chem., a thin crust formed on the surface of saline solutions when evaporated to a certain degree. This pellicle consists of crystallized saline particles.

noun. In botany, same as cortical layer (Which see, under cortical)

noun. A thin skin or film.

noun. A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

noun. A thin skin or film.

noun. Cuticle, the hard protective outer layer of certain life forms.

noun. The skin of a mushroom cap.

noun. The growth on the surface of a liquid culture.

noun. The photosensitive emulsion of photographic film.

noun. A thin plastic membrane used as a beam splitter or protective cover.

noun. the outermost layer of a mushroom, often used only for a surface that is viscid and easily peels off.

noun. thin protective membrane in some protozoa

proligerous pellicle  surface pellicle  

pelisse  pell  pellage  pellagra  pelt  

investment  

dichromate  flexile  hyperpigmentation  maltose  plating  

allantoic membrane  amnion  amniotic sac  arachnoid membrane  basement membrane