British spelling: to cause plant tissues to develop or become covered with cutin, or to undergo the process of cutin formation.
From cutin plus the British verb-forming suffix -ise (American -ize). This reflects the standard British convention for creating verbs from nouns, especially in scientific terminology.
British scientists say 'cutinise' while American scientists say 'cutinize'—it's the same process with different spelling traditions, a perfect example of how English diverged into two standardized systems after 1776!
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