tegumentn.
/ˈtɛɡjʊmənt/ Something that serves to cover; a covering, coating, envelope, investment, integument.
a. gen. (natural or artificial).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering
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integument?1611
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shell?1677
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tegmen1807
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 20 Ffor sunne and wynde hem make a tegument, Lest they in this be shake, in that to brent.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 32 Whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk.
1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 205 They have only a few teguments to cover themselves with in the night.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iii. ii. 64 Beds..lying under that upper Stratum, or Tegument of the Earth.
1825 H. Smith Gaieties & Gravities I. 139 Why should this worthless tegument endure, If its undying guest be lost for ever?
1888 A. S. Wilson Lyric of Hopeless Love cviii. 315 Beneath the tegument of clay.
b. Natural History and Anatomy. The natural covering of the body, or of some part or organ, of an animal or plant; a skin, coat, shell, husk, or the like; spec. = tegmen n. b (Brande Dict. Sci., 1842). Now rare or Obsolete; mostly replaced by integument n.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > outer covering
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 97 A harder tegument or shell [in the nutmeg], which lyeth under the Mace. View more context for this quotation
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. ix. 19 Corolla and Calyx, are the Teguments or Covers of the Stamina and Pistillum.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 250 It [the eye] is composed of three coats, or teguments, one covering the other.
1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1868) 2nd Ser. ii. 74 If we never find skins except as the teguments of animals.
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