皮

artificial leather; synthetic leather; faux leather

peony root bark

Proverb

he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name

book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer)

Botany

carpel

adrenocorticotropic hormone; adrenocorticotrophic hormone; ACTH

cherry tree inner bark

clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)

reduced to skin and bones

Botany

bast

Chinese lacquerware technique resulting in a mottled finish

white fish vinegared and rolled with kombu

paleocortex (palaeocortex); paleopallium

pick-guard (protective patch on a shamisen, etc.)

ecdysozoan (any animal of the superphylum Ecdysozoa, incl. arthropods, nematodes, etc.)

placoderms (extinct fishes of class Placodermi)

epidermal growth factor; EGF

melanosis

Physics

skin effect

insular cortex; insula

thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot

dog skin; dog hide; dog fur

rhinoceros hide

Abbreviation

Chinese lacquerware technique resulting in a mottled finish

silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot