ANIMAL SKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal skin mean? 

• ANIMAL SKIN (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL SKIN has 1 sense:

1. the outer covering of an animal

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL SKIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL SKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outer covering of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("animal skin" is a kind of...):

animal product (a product made from animal material)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal skin"):

lambskin; parchment; sheepskin (skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on)

fell; hide (the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal))

leather (an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning)

fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)