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noun(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
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nouna sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
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nounshelf that projects from wall above fireplace
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nounhanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)type of:
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nounUnited States baseball player (1931-1997)
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nounanything that covers
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verbspread over a surface, like a mantletype of:
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nounthe cloak as a symbol of authoritytype of:
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nounthe layer of the earth between the crust and the coretype of:part of:
Definition that contains mantle
- mantle cover like a mantle
- mantle spread over a surface, like a mantle
- dominican a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
- wrecker someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
- subduction a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
- knockdown (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled
- lithosphere the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle
- moho the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle
- mohorovicic discontinuity the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle
- pallium cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome