A covering or outer layer of a fruit or vegetable; a skin, husk, rind, or shell; the bark of a tree, or a layer of bark; spec. (a piece of) the thin…

The dry outer integument of certain fruits and seeds; esp. the hard fibrous sheath of grain, nuts, etc.; a glume or rind; spec. in U.S., the outer…

The outer covering of a seed, etc.; a husk, pod (e.g. pea-shell); †rind (of pomegranates, etc.); putamen, pericarp.

A membrane enclosing a bodily organ, part of a plant, etc.; = tunic, n. 4. Obsolete (or rare and archaic).

A skin, membrane, or other substance resembling parchment; spec. the husk of the coffee bean. Obsolete.

transferred. The integument of a part or organ in a plant; spec. in Botany any loose membranous skin not formed from the epidermis; also, each layer…

the protective outer covering of a seed; = testa, n. 1.

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Botany. The skin or coating of a seed.

The covering of a seed. Obsolete. rare.

The combined outer and inner integuments of a seed, or the outer of these by itself.

the internal covering of a seed.

Botany. The skin of a seed: = testa, n. 1. rare.

a false aril, which originates from the micropyle or rhaphe.

A cover, covering, coating, integument. (Only in scientific use.) Botany. The thin inner coat of a seed, immediately enveloping the nucleus; the endop…