tegument
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- subtegumental adjective
- subtegumentary adjective
- tegumental adjective
- tegumentary adjective
Etymology
Origin of tegument
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin tegumentum, equivalent to tegu- ( tegmen ) + -mentum -ment
Example Sentences
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The fruit, which somewhat resembles a pear, has a rough tegument covered with minute prickles, which instantly enter the hand which touches them, however slightly, and are very difficult to extract.
From Project Gutenberg
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
The ripe pseudospores are enveloped in a thick tegument, of a dark brown colour.
From Project Gutenberg
Certainly Nature, foreseeing the cruel usage which this useful servant to man should receive at man's hand, did prudently in furnishing him with a tegument impervious to ordinary stripes.
From Project Gutenberg
They are developed as tubercles or folds in the tegument, and are homologous with the legs.
From Project Gutenberg
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