Having a cuticle or cuticular layer; covered with or bearing a cuticle.
From Latin 'cuticula' + '-ate' (adjective suffix). Forms an adjective meaning 'possessing or characterized by' a cuticle.
Biologists use 'cuticulate' to describe organisms with well-developed protective outer layers—it's a marker of evolutionary adaptation to specific environments.
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