Significados de delicate cuticle em inglês

These glands are covered with a most delicate cuticle, and are filled with highly sensitive nerves.

The ultrafine clay particles squashed the spider without breaking up the animals' delicate cuticle as more coarse sediment would, Selden said.

It is probably naked (see here Klebs, Pouchet, Bütschli), although Stein maintained that there is a delicate cuticle-like shell.