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natural covering

n. a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover" [syn: covering, cover]

Usage examples of "natural covering".

Branches from the trees canopied overhead to form a natural covering, and traces of sunlight broke through the mist where it thinned at the roof of the forest, falling in long, rainbow streamers to the grasses below in the manner of light in a rain forest when the monsoons have passed.

For the first time he understood that they were dealing not with an empty shell casing buried by drift under this small beach, but with a shell still inhabited by the Warlockian creature to whom it was a natural covering, and that that inhabitant would fight to continue ownership.

A closer look disclosed that its gray color was not clothing but rather the skin or natural covering—.

A closer look disclosed that its gray color was not clothing but rather the skin or natural covering-fur or fine scales-itself.

A closer look disclosed that its gray color was not clothing but rather the skin or natural covering—.