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Noun mantle has 8 senses
- mantle - the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"
--1 is a kind of symbol
- Mantle, Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle - United States baseball player (1931-1997)
--2 is a kind of ballplayer, baseball player
- mantle - the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
--3 is a kind of layer
--3 is a part of lithosphere, geosphere
--3 has part: lower mantle; upper mantle
- blanket, mantle - anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"
--4 is a kind of covering, natural covering, cover
- mantle, pallium - (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
--5 is a kind of epidermis, cuticle
- mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece - shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in England they call a mantel a chimneypiece"
--6 is a kind of shelf
--6 is a part of fireplace, hearth, open fireplace
- curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
--7 is a kind of blind, screen; furnishings
--7 has particulars:
- cape, mantle - a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
--8 is a kind of cloak
--8 has particulars: chlamys; mantelet, mantilla; pelisse; tippet
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