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

Endoderm :: Endoderm (n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

Tegumentary :: Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

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..

Tunic :: Tunic (n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed..

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

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

Perisome :: Perisome (n.) The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument..

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..

Stoloniferous :: Stolon (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma..

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..

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

Scalp :: Scalp (n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.

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

Integument :: Integument (n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular..

Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals..

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

Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..

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

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