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natural covering ThesaurusNoun | 1. | natural covering - a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"covering, covernatural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by manscale - a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animalsshell - the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopodtest - a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchinsbody covering - any covering for the body or a body partsheath, case - an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or partintegument - an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shellblanket, mantle - anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"crust, encrustation, incrustation - a hard outer layer that covers somethingenvelope - a natural covering (as by a fluid); "the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet"hood, cap - a protective covering that is part of a plantindument, indumentum - a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insectroof - the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space; "the roof of the cave was very high"; "I could see the roof of the bear's mouth"shell - a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"eggshell, shell - the exterior covering of a bird's eggskim - a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"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; "fields in a vesture of green"peridium - outer layer of the spore-bearing organ in many fungipericarp, seed vessel - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovarychlamys, 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 pistilstheca, sac - a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsuleindusium - a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fernbark - tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants |
natural covering
Synonyms for natural coveringnoun a natural object that covers or envelopsSynonymsRelated Words- natural object
- scale
- shell
- test
- body covering
- sheath
- case
- integument
- blanket
- mantle
- crust
- encrustation
- incrustation
- envelope
- hood
- cap
- indument
- indumentum
- roof
- eggshell
- skim
- slough
- snowcap
- vesture
- peridium
- pericarp
- seed vessel
- chlamys
- floral envelope
- perianth
- perigone
- perigonium
- theca
- sac
- indusium
- bark
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