Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The outer, protective, nonvascular layer of the skin of vertebrates, covering the dermis.
- noun An integument or outer layer of various invertebrates.
- noun The outermost layer of cells covering the leaves and young parts of a plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the cuticle or scarfskin; the non-vascular outer layer of the skin.
- noun In zoology, broadly, some or any outermost integument or tegumentary covering or envelop of the body, or some part of the body: a term nearly synonymous with exoskeleton.
- noun In embryology, the outermost blastodermic membrane; the ectoderm or epiblast, which will in due course become an epidermis proper.
- noun In conchology, specifically, the rind or peel covering the shell of a mollusk; the external animal integument of the shell, as distinguished from the shell-substance proper: commonly found as a tough, fibrous, or stringy dark-colored bark, which readily peels off in shreds.
- noun In botany, the outer layer or layers of cells covering the surfaces of plants.
- noun Also
epiderm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See
dermis . - noun (Bot.) The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
outer ,protective layer of theskin ofvertebrates ,covering thedermis - noun The similar outer layer of cells in
invertebrates andplants
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The outside bark, or _epidermis_, consists of a thin, transparent, tissue-like substance, which covers not only the bark, but the whole of the tree, stem, leaves and branches, and beneath the epidermis is found
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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It bores through your obviously thin epidermis and exposes you and others here that bought into the lies.
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It bores through your obviously thin epidermis and exposes you and others here that bought into the lies.
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A portion of presumptive neural plate was removed from an embryo Triton taeniatus at the beginning of gastrulation and exchanged with a portion of presumptive epidermis from a Triton cristatus embryo of the same age.
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Melanocytes are cells found in the lower part of the outer layer of skin called the epidermis.
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Once you allow the sensation of spirit to push through there, you will discover that beyond the epidermis is a wider sheath of force that surrounds us.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Once you allow the sensation of spirit to push through there, you will discover that beyond the epidermis is a wider sheath of force that surrounds us.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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The cells appeared to grow into all the strata of the outermost layer of natural skin, called the epidermis, creating a stronger and potentially more effective solution for patients than skins with just a single stratum of epidermal cells.
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There is the outer layer known as the epidermis, the dermis in the middle and the inner hypodermis.
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The epidermis is a formidable barrier that keeps good things in the skin and bad things out.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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