Definition of integument

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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..

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Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals..
Pulp :: Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument..
Labium :: Labium (n.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.
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..
Endoderm :: Endoderm (n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.
Perisome :: Perisome (n.) The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument..
Scalp :: Scalp (n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
Sclerodermite :: Sclerodermite (n.) The hard integument of Crustacea.
Pseudorhabdite :: Pseudorhabdite (n.) One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.
Chitin :: Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin..
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..
Indutive :: Indutive (a.) Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.
Subundation :: Subumbrella (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish..
Derm :: Derm (v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.
Integumentary :: Integumentary (n.) Belonging to, or composed of, integuments..
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..
-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..
Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.
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..
Quintine :: Quintine (n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine..
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