Term: mantle: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: hydrolysis: a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: imputation: the attribution to a source or cause
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: scrotal vein: veins passing from the scrotum to the pudendal veins
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: castor-oil plant: large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: refectory: a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: deinonychus: swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot; of the Cretaceous
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: ostracodermi: extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: napu: chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil; found in India and Malaya
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: tubercularia: type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants
Broader: epidermis: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Unrelated: butt: a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)