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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..

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..

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

Scalp :: Scalp (n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

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..

Quintine :: Quintine (n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine..

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

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..

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

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

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

Integumation :: Integumation (n.) That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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