RIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rind mean? 

• RIND (noun)
  The noun RIND has 1 sense:

1. the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)

  Familiarity information: RIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rind" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

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

bacon rind (the rind of bacon)

peel; skin (the rind of a fruit or vegetable)

cheese rind (the rind of a cheese)

 Context examples 

The researchers claim that their watermelon rind technology is among the cheapest developed so far.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

A racemic mixture of limonene, a natural cyclic monoterpene and major component of the oil extracted from citrus rind with chemo-preventive and antitumor activities.

(Limonene, (+/-)-, NCI Thesaurus)

Dietary fiber source, extracted from rind of citrus fruits, and used as a gelling agent.

(Citrus Pectin, NCI Thesaurus)

And when the last cup of flour was gone and the last rind of bacon, she was able to rise to the occasion, and of moccasins and the softer-tanned bits of leather in the outfit to make a grub-stake substitute that somehow held a man's soul in his body and enabled him to stagger on.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The researchers treated watermelon rind with xanthate salts — which attract and bind arsenic — to produce a filter capable of removing 95 per cent of arsenic from water samples taken from around Pakistan.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

Watermelon rind, usually discarded as waste, has been shown by researchers in Pakistan to be capable of cheaply and efficiently removing arsenic from groundwater.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)

He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)