Seeds contain an embryo, a store of food (the endosperm), and a protective coat.

Any anthrax spores are first made to germinate from their protective coat.

Tin can be highly polished and is used as a protective coat for other metals.

It was then covered with a protective clear coat and modified for mounting on the pylon.

I'll have all our planes given a special protective coat of plastic," Tom declared grimly.

Money was the lining of the protective coat which concealed him from a dangerously cold and malevolent world.

Men in protective coats and hard hats were already fighting the fire with foam and water.

He saw his infant's body, standing, shivering, naked of its protective coat.

In particular, the forest that once clothed this mini continent like a protective coat has virtually gone.

Get the grease gun out and give rod ends and the like a protective coat.