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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Lobated :: Lobated (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.
Perisarc :: Perisarc (n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids..
Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals..
Quintine :: Quintine (n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine..
Subundation :: Subumbrella (n.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish..
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..
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..
Integumentation :: Integumentation (n.) The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
Tegument :: Tegument (n.) A cover or covering; an integument.
Endoderm :: Endoderm (n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.
Integumation :: Integumation (n.) That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.
Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.
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.
Pulp :: Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument..
Derm :: Derm (v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.
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..
-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..
Secundine :: Secundine (n.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine..
Envelop :: Envelop (v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship..
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