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

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..

Pulp :: Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument..

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

Papula :: Papula (n.) One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.

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

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

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..

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

Tunic :: Tunic (n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed..

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

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

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

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.

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

Pseudorhabdite :: Pseudorhabdite (n.) One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular substance.

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

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..

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..

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