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# epidermis

«epidermis» in Mova's school dictionary: **The thin outer layer of the skin that you can see and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (the epidermis, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (science) The thin outer layer of the skin that you can see and touch; it protects the body from germs, water and sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#m1)

2) (plants) The outer layer of cells on a leaf, stem or root. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on the body: the epidermis is on top of the dermis; it is constantly making new cells and shedding old dead ones as dust. In plant lessons, students look at leaf epidermis under a microscope to see the tiny holes (stomata). Sunburn damages the epidermis.

### examples

- The epidermis is the outer layer of your skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#x1)
- Dead cells from the epidermis flake off every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#x2)
- Sunburn damages the epidermis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#x3)
- We peeled a thin layer of onion epidermis to look at under the microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#x4)
- The epidermis has no blood vessels, so a tiny scrape may not bleed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#x5)
- A plant's epidermis is covered in a waxy layer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. «Epi-» means «on top of» + «dermis» (skin). Said «ep-ih-DER-mis».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «epidermis» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/epidermis/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.