Definition of tegument

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

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Endoderm :: Endoderm (n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.
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..
Labium :: Labium (n.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.
Integumation :: Integumation (n.) That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.
Sarcoderma :: sarcoderma (n.) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments..
-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..
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.
Derm :: Derm (v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.
Perisarc :: Perisarc (n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids..
Tegumentary :: Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
Skin :: Skin (n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
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..
Scalp :: Scalp (n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
Integumentation :: Integumentation (n.) The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
Hull :: Hull (v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn..
Endostome :: Endostome (n.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
Dermal :: Dermal (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions..
Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..
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..
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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