natural covering

Noun
  1. A natural object that covers or envelops (synset 109280855)
    "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"
    is a type of: natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man
    subtypes:
    • scale - a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
    • shell - the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
    • 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)
    • cap, hood - a protective covering that is part of a plant
    • indument, indumentum - a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect
    • roof - the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
    • shell - a rigid covering that envelops an object
    • eggshell, shell - the exterior covering of a bird's egg
    • 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
    • bark - tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
    same as: cover, covering

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