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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]

rind
  • crust - From French crouste, from Latin crusta, "rind, shell; incrustation."
  • pith - First referred to the spongy cellular tissue in the stems and branches of many plants, and also the spongy white tissue lining the rind of citrus fruits.
  • rind, peel - The rind is the hard or tough covering on oranges, grapefruit, and watermelon; once removed, skin or rind is usually known as peel.
  • sward - The rind of bacon or pork.
  • 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
    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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