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Seed :: Seed (n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant..

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

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..

Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

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

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

Integumentary :: Integumentary (n.) Belonging to, or composed of, integuments..

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..

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.

Sclerodermite :: Sclerodermite (n.) The hard integument of Crustacea.

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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