rind

/raɪnd/

/raɪnd/

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

1. noun

   the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
   types:

   bacon rind

   the rind of bacon

   peel, skin

   the rind of a fruit or vegetable

   cheese rind

   the rind of a cheese

   jacket

   the outer skin of a potato

   banana peel, banana skin

   the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)

   lemon peel, lemon rind

   the rind of a lemon

   orange peel, orange rind

   the rind of an orange

   type of:

   material, stuff

   the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object