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Please note the term Cuticle is used interchangeably between human Anatomy to describe the area above the finger or toe nail, it is also used in Botany to describe the waxy covering of a leaf or thickened skin of fruit; additionally the term is used in Entomology to describe the covering of insects

This answer refers to the Botanical reference of Cuticle; refer to the related question "What is a cuticle" for the Anatomical definition.

Plant cuticles are a protective waxy covering produced only by the epidermal cells of leaves, young shoots and all other aerial plant organs without periderm. The cuticle tends to be thicker on the top of the leaf, but is not always thicker in xerophytic plants living in dry climates than in mesophytic plants from wetter climates, despite a persistent myth to that effect.

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Plant cuticles are primarily made of waxes.

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Cuticle in plants is the outermost layer on the outer tangential walls of epidermal cells. It is made up of complex carbohydrates. It protects the cell from external microbes etc.

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A waxy covering of the plant that helps the plant retard moister loss.

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