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Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..

Indutive :: Indutive (a.) Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.

-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..

Stoloniferous :: Stolon (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma..

Quartine :: Quartine (n.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside..

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..

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

Integumentation :: Integumentation (n.) The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.

Endoderm :: Endoderm (n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

Seed :: Seed (n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant..

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

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

Pseudorhabdite :: Pseudorhabdite (n.) One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

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..

Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals..

Dermal :: Dermal (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions..

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

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

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..

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

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