pellicle

Example Sentences

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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

Before smoking, refrigerate the cheese uncovered the night before so it develops a "pellicle" — that sticky surface to which the smoke will adhere.

From Los Angeles Times

"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live," writes Thoreau, "We know not where we are."

From The Guardian

Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

From Project Gutenberg

On inspecting the fauces to discover the cause we observe a pellicle forming over the tonsils and perhaps other portions of the faucial surface.

From Project Gutenberg