MEANING
The tough outer covering of certain fruits, cheeses, or other foods.
Use it for
describing a tough outer food covering; distinguishing the outside from the flesh beneath; giving an object a precise tactile and sensory edgeIdentifies a food’s tough outer covering rather than its flesh or soft inner tissue, a useful tactile distinction. Writing functions: Texture / Sensory Detail.
Words that belong together
- lemon rind
- cheese rind
- a thick rind
On the page
The lemon rind left a bitter trace on the blade.
He scraped the rind from the cheese and set it carefully aside.
Word forms
- Base
- rind
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: rind; plural rinds. A rind, pieces of rind, or lemon rind as a material. Register: neutral. Commonness: common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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