cutine
French, noun/ky.tin/
cutine is spelled C-U-T-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written French, the 294,907th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cutine is a French feminine noun meaning “cutin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Polymère d'acide gras déposé dans les couches superficielles des plantes jeunes, provenant de la…”.
What does cutine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecutin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Polymère d'acide gras déposé dans les couches superficielles des plantes jeunes, provenant de la transformation de la membrane cellulosique des cellules et constituant avec des cires la cuticule hydrophobe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cutine
- cutines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cutine?
- /ky.tin/
- \ky.tin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cutine in French?
cutine appears about once in every 89 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).