BODY COVERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body covering mean? 

• BODY COVERING (noun)
  The noun BODY COVERING has 1 sense:

1. any covering for the body or a body part

  Familiarity information: BODY COVERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY COVERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any covering for the body or a body part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("body covering" is a kind of...):

cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)

Meronyms (parts of "body covering"):

hypodermis (layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body covering"):

hide; pelt; skin (body covering of a living animal)

feather; plumage; plume (the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds)

protective covering (the tough natural covering of some organisms)

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

exuviae (cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis)

hair (a 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)

headful (a covering over the surface of your head)

epicranium (the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium)

exoskeleton (the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs)