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SKIN |
Outer covering |
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CRUST |
Outer covering |
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SHELL |
Egg’s outer covering |
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ARIL |
Hard outer covering |
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VEST |
Any outer covering; array; garb. |
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PERISPORE |
The outer covering of a spore. |
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RAIL |
An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. |
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CORTEX |
Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering. |
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PERIDERM |
The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine
animals; the perisarc. |
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CORTICATED |
Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the
interior part. |
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BARK |
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark
one's heel. |
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SPERMODERM |
The covering of a seed; -- sometimes limited to the
outer coat or testa. |
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VALVELET |
A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces
which compose the outer covering of a pericarp. |
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HULL |
The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or
of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk. |
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SHUCK |
A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of
such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. |
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GLUME |
The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and
grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. |
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CLEADING |
A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent
radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam
engine. |
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BEETLE |
Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings,
the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are
folded up. See Coleoptera. |
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LAGGING |
The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a
steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of
lags; -- called also deading and cleading. |
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JACKET |
An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some
nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation
of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc. |
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ROOF |
... building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers
call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is
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