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Derm :: Derm (v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.

Sclerodermite :: Sclerodermite (n.) The hard integument of Crustacea.

Testa :: Testa (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm..

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

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

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

Labium :: Labium (n.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.

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

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

Chitin :: Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin..

Envelop :: Envelop (v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship..

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

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

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

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..

Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

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

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid..

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

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

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