fish skin

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Etymology

From fish +‎ skin.

Noun

fish skin (countable and uncountable, plural fish skins)

  1. The skin of a fish.
    • 1974, Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 333:
      Protection from abrasion and predation is another function of the fish skin, and dermal (skin) bone arose early in fish evolution.
    • 1997, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, Bruce B. Collette, Gene S. Helfman, The Diversity of Fishes - Biology, Evolution and Ecology:
      As with fish skin, the chemical composition of scales is poorly known. About 41% to 84% is organic protein, mostly albuminoids such as collagen (24%) and ichthylepidin (76%).
  2. The leather that is made from this skin.

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