TUNIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tunic mean? 

• TUNIC (noun)
  The noun TUNIC has 2 senses:

1. an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

2. any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees

  Familiarity information: TUNIC used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUNIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

adventitia; tunic; tunica

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

membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)

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

albuginea (whitish tunic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

cloak (a loose outer garment)

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

chiton (a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece)

gymslip (a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform)

kameez (a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars))

kirtle (a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages)

surcoat (a tunic worn over a knight's armor)

tabard (a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald)

 Context examples 

His cote-hardie, or tunic, and trunk-hosen were of a purple plum color, with long weepers which hung from either sleeve to below his knees.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Administration within the cornea (the transparent structure forming the anterior part of the fibrous tunic of the eye).

(Intracorneal Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

The white, opaque, fibrous, outer tunic of the eyeball, covering it entirely excepting the segment covered anteriorly by the cornea.

(Murine Sclera, NCI Thesaurus)

Where all this difference then between the ermine cloak and the leathern tunic, if what they cover is the same?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pressing the veil to his lips, he thrust it into the bosom of his tunic, and rushed as fast as feet could bear him to arm himself and join the muster.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Here, then, is something to try upon,” quoth the archer, pulling a square of parchment from the inside of his tunic.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By my ten finger bones! when I hang bow on nail and change my brigandine for a tunic, I might do worse than take over the dame and her business.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a squat, bull-necked man, clad in the iron helmet, mail tunic, and woollen gambesson of his class.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From thence we went to Bourges, where I had a tunic of flame-colored silk and a very fine pair of shoes with tassels of silk and drops of silver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a rough, powerful peasant, with cap and tunic of untanned sheepskin, leather breeches, and galligaskins round legs and feet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)