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Tegumentary :: Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

Tegument :: Tegument (n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide..

Tunicle :: Tunicle (n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.

Integument :: Integument (n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular..

Coat :: Coat (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish..

Patagium :: Patagium (n.) In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body..

Quintine :: Quintine (n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..

Tegmen :: Tegmen (n.) A tegument or covering.

Sclerodermous :: Sclerodermous () Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates..

Endostome :: Endostome (n.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

Skin :: Skin (n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.

Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..

Kernel :: Kernel (n.) The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp..

Lobated :: Lobated (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.

Pulp :: Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument..

Secundine :: Secundine (n.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine..

Papula :: Papula (n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

Integumentary :: Integumentary (n.) Belonging to, or composed of, integuments..

Primine :: Primine (n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

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