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Tegmen :: Tegmen (n.) A tegument or covering.

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..

Lobated :: Lobated (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.

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

Integumation :: Integumation (n.) That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kernel :: Kernel (n.) The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp..

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

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

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

Skin :: Skin (n.) The external membranous 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..

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..

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