CUTIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cutin mean? 

• CUTIN (noun)
  The noun CUTIN has 1 sense:

1. (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids

  Familiarity information: CUTIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("cutin" is a kind of...):

plant material; plant substance (material derived from plants)

Domain category:

biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)

 Context examples 

Waxy or fatty layer on outer wall of epidermal cells formed of cutin and wax.

(Cuticle, Food and Drug Administration)