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Protective covering   /prətˈɛktɪv kˈəvərɪŋ/   Listen
Protective covering

noun
1.
A covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury.  Synonyms: protection, protective cover.  "Wax provided protection for the floors"
2.
The tough natural covering of some organisms.





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"Protective covering" Quotes from Famous Books



... the crash rations into small packs. A blanket of the water-resistant, feather-heavy Ozakian spider silk was cut into a protective covering for Vye. That piece of tailoring occupied them until the graying sky permitted them a full picture of the pocket in which the flitter had landed. The dark foliage of the mountain growth was broken here by a ledge of dark-blue stone on ...
— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton
... as possible, beginning at its most dependent part (the extremity of the horn). This serves two good ends. It squeezes out into the general circulation the enormous mass of blood which engorged and enlarged the organ, and it furnishes a strong protective covering for the now delicate, friable organ, through which it may be safely manipulated without danger of laceration. The next step may be the pressure on the general mass while those portions next the vulva ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... people. Beans, cabbage, turnips and onions have too strong a flavor if dried without blanching. Furthermore, it starts the color to flowing, just as it does in canning. It removes the sticky coating round vegetables. Most vegetables have a protective covering to prevent evaporation. The removal of this covering by blanching facilitates drying. Blanching also relaxes the tissues, drives out the air and improves the capillary attraction, and as a result the drying is done in a much shorter ...
— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray


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