Dictionary entry details
• NATURAL COVERING (noun)
Meaning:
A natural object that covers or envelops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
covering; natural covering; cover
Context examples:
under a covering of dust / 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"):
scale (a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals)
skim (a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid)
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)
peridium (outer layer of the spore-bearing organ in many fungi)
pericarp; seed vessel (the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary)
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)
sac; theca (a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule)
indusium (a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern)
eggshell; shell (the exterior covering of a bird's egg)
shell (a rigid covering that envelops an object)
shell (the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc)
test (a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins)
body covering (any covering for the body or a body part)
case; sheath (an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part)
integument (an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell)
blanket; mantle (anything that covers)
crust; encrustation; incrustation (a hard outer layer that covers something)
envelope (a natural covering (as by a fluid))
indument; indumentum (a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect)
bark (tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants)
