natural covering

1. 1.

   a natural object that covers or envelops

   “under a covering of dust”

   “the fox was flushed from its cover”

   Synonymscoveringcover

   Broadernatural object

   Narrowerscaleshelltestbody coveringsheathintegumentblanketcrustenvelopehood

Questions about natural covering

What does natural covering mean?

natural covering means "a natural object that covers or envelops".

What is another word for natural covering?

Close synonyms include covering, cover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natural covering a common word?

natural covering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.