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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..

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..

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

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

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

Tunicle :: Tunicle (n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pseudorhabdite :: Pseudorhabdite (n.) One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

Testa :: Testa (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm..

Subundation :: Subumbrella (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish..

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..

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

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

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