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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..

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..

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..

Pulp :: Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument..

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

Perisarc :: Perisarc (n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids..

Indutive :: Indutive (a.) Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.

Coat :: Coat (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish..

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

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

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..

-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..

Albumen :: Albumen (n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc..

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

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

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

Tegument :: Tegument (n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide..

Primine :: Primine (n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

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

Tegmental :: Tegmental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds..

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