rind
noun
[ rʌɪnd ]
• the tough outer skin of certain fruit, especially citrus fruit.
• "decorate with fine shreds of orange rind"
Similar:
skin,
peel,
covering,
zest,
hull,
pod,
shell,
husk,
crust,
shuck,
capsule,
outer layer,
bark,
hide,
epicarp,
pericarp,
exocarp,
integument,
rind
verb
• strip the bark from (a tree).
• "when the meat ran out they had to rind trees and chew the inner bark for nourishment"
Origin:
Old English rind(e) ‘bark of a tree’; related to Dutch run and German Rinde, of unknown origin.
