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

Skin :: Skin (n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.

Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..

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

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..

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

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

Ascidioidea :: Ascidioidea (n. pl.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix..

Sclerodermous :: Sclerodermous () Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

Stoloniferous :: Stolon (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma..

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

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.

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