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rind
1. the outer layer of a fruit or of the spore-producing body of certain fungi
2. the outer layer of the bark of a tree
rind [rīnd]
(botany)
The bark of a tree.
The thick outer covering of certain fruits.
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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.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
In some previous place I have described to you how the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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