rind
Other forms: rinds
A rind is a thick, inedible peel. You'll have to remove the rind of your orange before you eat it.
Most rinds occur naturally, growing to cover and protect a fruit or a plant. You can also call the thick, waxy covering on a wheel of cheese a rind, or the inedible skin on a sausage or another food. The Old English root rinde originally meant "bark or crust," and later also "peel of a fruit or vegetable."
Definitions of rind
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the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
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bacon rind
the rind of bacon
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peel, skin
the rind of a fruit or vegetable
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cheese rind
the rind of a cheese
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jacket
the outer skin of a potato
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banana peel, banana skin
the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
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lemon peel, lemon rind
the rind of a lemon
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orange peel, orange rind
the rind of an orange
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