Definition of tegument

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Tegument (n.) A cover or covering; an integument.

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Pseudorhabdite :: Pseudorhabdite (n.) One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.
Integumentary :: Integumentary (n.) Belonging to, or composed of, integuments..
Umbo :: Umbo (n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear..
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..
Tegumentary :: Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
Indutive :: Indutive (a.) Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.
Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..
Sclerodermite :: Sclerodermite (n.) The hard integument of Crustacea.
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..
Primine :: Primine (n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.
Subundation :: Subumbrella (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish..
Tunic :: Tunic (n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed..
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..
Hull :: Hull (v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn..
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..
Pulp :: Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument..
Sclerodermous :: Sclerodermous () Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates..
Tunicle :: Tunicle (n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.
Perisarc :: Perisarc (n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids..
Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.
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