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eschar
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun eschar has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
eschar, n. [L. eschara, Gr. : cf. F. eschare. See Scar.].
A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics. [1913 Webster]
eschar, n. [Ir.].
In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [1913 Webster]
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eschar
Layer
N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.
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