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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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
On the contrary, the tegument is frequently left entirely intact, especially when the injury follows infectious diseases or occurs during light exercise after long periods of rest in the stable.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
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