NATURAL COVERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural covering mean? 

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

1. a natural object that covers or envelops

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL COVERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural object that covers or envelops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cover; covering; natural covering

Context example:

the fox was flushed from its cover

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

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

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

shell (a rigid covering that envelops an object)

bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)

indusium (a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern)

sac; theca (a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule)

chlamys; floral envelope; perianth; perigone; perigonium (collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils)

pericarp; seed vessel (the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary)

peridium (outer layer of the spore-bearing organ in many fungi)

vesture (something that covers or cloaks like a garment)

snowcap (a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak))

slough (any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake))

skim (a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid)

eggshell; shell (the exterior covering of a bird's egg)

scale (a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals)

roof (the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space)

indument; indumentum (a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect)

cap; hood (a protective covering that is part of a plant)

envelope (a natural covering (as by a fluid))

crust; encrustation; incrustation (a hard outer layer that covers something)

blanket; mantle (anything that covers)

integument (an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell)

case; sheath (an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part)

body covering (any covering for the body or a body part)

test (a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins)

shell (the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod)

 Context examples 

The natural covering of the body; the skin.

(Murine Skin, NCI Thesaurus/DEA-DEAIS)