mantle

Examples

• All

• Sheena 5 glided at the heart of the ship, where the water that passed through her mantle, over her gills, was warmest and richest.

  Fiction book (2000)

• No gold has she, but sunlight's mantle is soft to wrap her in ...

  Fiction book (1992)

• As she rose, the water flowing through her mantle cooled, the rich oxygen thinning.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The mantle of the octopus produces the material needed to form its shell.

• During the study, researchers focused on the mantle of the mollusk and its ability to regenerate.

• The mantle tissue secretes calcium carbonate, which is essential for building the shell of certain marine animals.

Synonyms

P

pallium

vsmantle

• Specialized

9.9

A soft body layer on animals with shells that makes the shell

has identical meaning but is an alternate technical term used in zoology

Idioms

A

to assume the mantle

• Formal

1 7.3

To take on an important role as a leader

C

to carry the mantle

• Formal

1 7.4

To take on responsibility as the next leader

Compounds

C

cerebral mantle

• Specialized

9.9

Layer of grey brain cells that forms the outer part and handles thinking and senses

L

lower mantle

• Specialized

8.1

A deep, solid layer inside the Earth above the outer core, about 660 to 2,900 km below the surface

U

upper mantle

• Specialized

6.7

A layer of rock under Earth's crust that slowly flows

Surface Forms

Etymology