tegument
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tegument
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin tegumentum, equivalent to tegu- ( see tegmen) + -mentum -ment
Example Sentences
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Sunlight streams through the big picture window, though it’s cold, down to zero overnight, and the lake is sealed beneath a hard uneven tegument of ice so thick you could drive a truck across it.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2010
But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none.
From Time Magazine Archive
As it ripens the yellow external tegument opens, revealing the dark-red mace, that is closely enwrapped about a thin black shell.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various
They have all strength enough to break the ligneous tegument of the seed; they get out the kernel, and carry it to the tops of the trees.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
They are developed as tubercles or folds in the tegument, and are homologous with the legs.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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