单词 | natural covering |
释义 | natural covering (once / 223006 pages) n WORD FAMILY natural covering: natural coverings USAGE EXAMPLESWe might as well dispute about the origin of forests, upon the assumption that the natural covering of the earth was grass. Peck, John Mason, A New Guide for Emigrants to the We...(2010) If eggs are to be preserved, they should not be washed unless their condition compels it, as washing removes the natural covering of the pores. Ontario. Ministry of Education, Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Househol...(2010) In the crown of this natural covering were thrust three stained eagle feathers, while there were two rows of colored beads around the neck. Ellis, Edward Sylvester, The Hunters of the Ozark(2010) n a natural object that covers or envelops Syn|Hypo|Hyper cover, covering scale a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals shellthe hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod testa hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins body coveringany covering for the body or a body part case, sheathan enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part integumentan outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell blanket, mantleanything that covers crust, encrustation, incrustationa hard outer layer that covers something envelopea natural covering (as by a fluid) cap, hooda protective covering that is part of a plant indument, indumentuma covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect roofthe inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space shella rigid covering that envelops an object eggshell, shellthe exterior covering of a bird's egg skima thin layer covering the surface of a liquid sloughany outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) snowcapa covering of snow (as on a mountain peak) vesturesomething that covers or cloaks like a garment peridiumouter layer of the spore-bearing organ in many fungi pericarp, seed vesselthe ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary chlamys, floral envelope, perianth, perigone, perigoniumcollective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils sac, thecaa case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule indusiuma membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern barktough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants hide, pelt, skinbody covering of a living animal feather, plumage, plumethe light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds protective coveringthe tough natural covering of some organisms fish scalescale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish squamaa protective structure resembling a scale valveone of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods valvethe entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs scallop shella shell of a scallop oyster shella shell of an oyster phragmacone, phragmoconethe thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite thecaouter sheath of the pupa of certain insects loricaa hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) seashellthe shell of a marine organism clamshellthe shell of a clam cutis, skin, tegumenta natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch exuviaecast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis haira covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss headfula covering over the surface of your head medullary sheath, myelin sheatha layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers neurilemma, neurolemmathin membranous sheath around a nerve fiber epicraniumthe muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium exoskeletonthe exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs calculus, tartar, tophusan incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums epicarp, exocarpoutermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape mesocarpthe middle layer of a pericarp endocarp, pit, stonethe hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed capsulea dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses cinnamon, cinnamon barkaromatic bark used as a spice Chinese cinnamon, cassia barkaromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree; less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark cinnamon barkaromatic bark of Saigon cinnamon used medicinally as a carminative magnoliadried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine bur, burrseed vessel having hooks or prickles tanbarkbark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering mezereumthe dried bark of the shrub mezereon canella, canella bark, white cinnamonhighly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic fallsthe petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris) Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark, cinchona, cinchona barkmedicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine cascarilla bark, eleuthera bark, sweetwood barkaromatic bark of cascarilla; used as a tonic and for making incense huskouter membranous covering of some fruits or seeds cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem barkdried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative winter's barkaromatic bark having tonic and stimulant properties tapa, tapa bark, tappa, tappa barkthe thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus angostura, angostura barkthe bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters corkouter bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. cork, phellem(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man |
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