cuticle

Nouns

  • (n) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail
  • (n) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates epidermis,
  • (n) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles carapace, shell, shield,

Synonyms

epidermis carapace shell shield

Words of close approximity