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rind

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rind  (rnd)
n.
A tough outer covering such as bark, the skin of some fruits, or the coating on cheese or bacon.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

rind [raɪnd]
n
1. (Cookery) a hard outer layer or skin on bacon, cheese, etc.
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the outer layer of a fruit or of the spore-producing body of certain fungi
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the outer layer of the bark of a tree
[Old English rinde; Old High German rinta, German Rinde]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.rind - the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
bacon rind - the rind of bacon
peel, skin - the rind of a fruit or vegetable
cheese rind - the rind of a cheese
material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

rind
noun
1. skin, peel, outer layer, epicarp grated lemon rind
2. crust, covering, shell, husk, integument Cut off the rind of the cheese
Translations
rind [raɪnd] N [of fruit] → cáscara f; [of cheese, bacon] → corteza f

rind [ˈraɪnd] n
[bacon] → couenne f
[cheese] → croûte f
(= peel) [lemon, orange] → écorce f
grated rind of 1 orange → zeste d'une orange

rind
n (of cheese)Rinde f; (of bacon)Schwarte f; (of fruit)Schale f

rind [raɪnd] n (of fruit) → buccia; (of lemon) → scorza; (of cheese) → crosta; (of bacon) → cotenna
rind [raɪnd] n (of fruit) → buccia; (of lemon) → scorza; (of cheese) → crosta; (of bacon) → cotenna

rind
n rind [raind]
a thick, hard outer layer or covering, especially the outer surface of cheese or bacon, or the peel of fruit bacon-rind; lemon-rind. skil, kors قِشْرَه، سَطْح جاف кора kůra skorpe; -skorpe; svær; -svær; skal; -skal die Rinde φλούδα costra, piel, corteza koor(ik), kamar پوست؛ پوسته kuori couenne, peau, écorce קְלִיפָּה चमड़ा, छिलका kora, lupina héj kulit börkur; hÿði; para; skorpa buccia, scorza; crosta; cotenna 껍질, 외피 oda, žievė miza; (speķa) ādiņa kerak korst, schil skorpe; svor; skall skórka, łupina casca coajă; scoarţă; şorici корка; кожура kôra; koža, šupka skorja, lupina kora skal, svål, kant, skalk เปลือกชั้นนอก kabuk 外皮 кора; шкірка چھلکا vỏ


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Then she peeled it, ate it, and threw the rind out of the window, and it so happened that a mare that was running loose in the court below ate up the rind.
Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.
In some previous place I have described to you how the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.
 
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