All epidermis synonyms

noun epidermis

• skin — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
• cuticle — Your cuticles are the skin at the base of each of your fingernails.
• integument — a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
• layer — protocol layer
• fur — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
• leather — the skin of an animal, with the hair removed, prepared for use by tanning or a similar process designed to preserve it against decay and make it pliable or supple when dry.
• wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
• crust — The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
• ectoderm — the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.
• felt — simple past tense and past participle of feel.
• fleece — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
• husk — the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
• membrane — Anatomy. a thin, pliable sheet or layer of animal or vegetable tissue, serving to line an organ, connect parts, etc.
• pelage — the hair, fur, wool, or other soft covering of a mammal.
• pellicle — a thin skin or membrane; film; scum.
• pelt — to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
• rind — a piece of iron running across an upper millstone as a support.
• scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
• shell — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
• peltry — fur skins; pelts collectively.
• scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
• coat — A coat is a piece of clothing with long sleeves which you wear over your other clothes when you go outside.
• fell — simple past tense of fall.
• hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
• jacket — a short coat, in any of various forms, usually opening down the front.
• slough — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
• bark — When a dog barks, it makes a short, loud noise, once or several times.
• coating — A coating of a substance is a thin layer of it spread over a surface.
• sheath — a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
• surface — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
• carapace — A carapace is the protective shell on the back of some animals such as tortoises or crabs.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• casing — A casing is a substance or object that covers something and protects it.
• cutis — the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
• derma — beef or fowl intestine used as a casing for certain dishes, esp kishke
• dermis — the layer of skin just below the epidermis
• film — a thin layer or coating: a film of grease on a plate.
• hull — Cordell [kawr-del,, kawr-del] /ˈkɔr dɛl,, kɔrˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1933–44; Nobel Peace Prize 1945.
• outside — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
• parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
• peel — to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.: to peel an orange.
• sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• tegument — a covering or vestment; integument.
• vellum — calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc., treated for use as a writing surface.