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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Hull :: Hull (v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Tegument :: Tegument (n.) A cover or covering; an integument.

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..

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

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