[ad. F. épiderme, ad. mod.L. epidermis, epiderma.] = EPIDERMIS in its various senses.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 349/1. An intermediate layer of unhardened epiderm.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., x. (1858), 163. Leaves are expansions of bark … enclosed in a skin or epiderm.
1887. Blackmore, Springhaven (ed. 4), II. xvi. 226. He would not have imperilled the gloss of his epiderm.
