Definition of natural covering Natural covering
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What does natural covering mean?
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| natural covering - a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover" | ||
| covering, cover | ||
| natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man | ||
| scale a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | ||
| shell the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | ||
| test the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" | ||
| body covering any covering for the body or a body part | ||
| sheath, case a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | ||
| integument an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell | ||
| blanket, mantle bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep" | ||
| crust, encrustation, incrustation the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | ||
| envelope any wrapper or covering | ||
| cap, hood a tight-fitting headdress | ||
| indument, indumentum a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | ||
| roof a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building | ||
| shell the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | ||
| eggshell, shell the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | ||
| skim reading or glancing through quickly | ||
| slough any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | ||
| snowcap a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak) | ||
| vesture something that covers or cloaks like a garment; "fields in a vesture of green" | ||
| peridium outer layer of the spore-bearing organ in many fungi | ||
| pericarp, seed vessel the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary | ||
| floral envelope, perianth, perigone, perigonium, chlamys collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | ||
| theca, sac outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects | ||
| indusium a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern | ||
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