American spelling: to cause plant tissues to develop or become covered with cutin, or to undergo the process of cutin formation.
From cutin plus the American verb-forming suffix -ize (British -ise). Standard American scientific verb formation.
American scientists have been using 'cutinize' in botanical journals since the 1800s, and it's remained consistent while the British prefer 'cutinise'—a perfect snapshot of how language standards diverged!
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