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epicuticle
n. (context biology English) The outermost portion of the exoskeleton of an insect or arthropod.
Usage examples of "epicuticle".
And sometimes, on clouded nights when there wasn't even much starshine to guide them, went out scogger-hunting in the velvet dark (stumbling over bushes and hillocks, with ultraviolet lights that made the grubs' epicuticles fluoresce so they looked like neon-lit cockroaches in the night) and broiled their catch for breakfast.