| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering |
| Synonyms: | bark, cortex, crust, epicarp, hull, husk, integument, layer, peel, shell, skin |
| Notes: | rind is the hard or tough covering on oranges, grapefruit, and watermelon; once removed, skin or rind is usually known as peel |
| Antonyms: | pulp |
| Main Entry: | coat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal hair |
| Synonyms: | crust, ectoderm, epidermis, felt, fleece, fur, hide, husk, integument, leather, membrane, pelage, pellicle, pelt, peltry, protective covering, rind, scale, scarfskin, shell, skin, wool |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Main Entry: | crust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stiff outer layer; coating |
| Synonyms: | band, bloom, border, caking, coat, concretion, covering, edge, encrustation, film, hull, incrustation, integument, layer, outside, rind, scab, shell, skin, surface, verge |
| Main Entry: | exterior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | visible part |
| Synonyms: | appearance, aspect, coating, cover, covering, exteriority, external, facade, face, finish, outside, polish, rind, shell, skin, superficies, superstratum, surface |
| Antonyms: | center, core, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | hull |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skeleton, body |
| Synonyms: | bark, case, casing, cast, covering, frame, framework, husk, mold, peel, peeling, pod, rind, shell, shuck, skin, structure |
| Main Entry: | husk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, case |
| Synonyms: | aril, bark, case, chaff, glume, hull, outside, pod, rind, shell, shuck, skin |
| Antonyms: | core |
| Main Entry: | peel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skin, covering |
| Synonyms: | bark, cover, epicarp, exocarp, husk, peeling, pellicle, rind, shell, shuck |
| Notes: | rind is the hard or tough covering on oranges, grapefruit, and watermelon; once removed, skin or rind is usually known as peel |
| Antonyms: | innards, insides |
| Main Entry: | skin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer covering, especially of animate being |
| Synonyms: | bark, carapace, case, casing, coating, crust, cutis, derma, dermis, epidermis, fell, film, fur, hide, hull, husk, integument, jacket, membrane, outside, parchment, peel, pelt, rind, sheath, sheathing, shell, shuck, slough, surface, tegument, vellum |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | body, core, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | skin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove outer covering |
| Synonyms: | abrade, bare, bark, cast, cut off, decorticate, excoriate, exuviate, flay, gall, graze, hull, husk, lay bare, pare, peel, pull off, remove, rind, scale, scalp, scrape, shave, shed, shuck, slough, strip, trim |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | cover |