tunic
(noun) any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees
tunic, tunica, adventitia
(noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tunic (plural tunics)
A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
(anatomy, botany) Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.
• cut in, cut-in, cutin, incut
Source: Wiktionary
Tu"nic, n. Etym: [L. tunica: cf. F.tunique.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.)
Definition: An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.
2. Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: Same as Tunicle.
4. (Anat.)
Definition: A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
5. (Bot.)
Definition: A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
6. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
