Tegument

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  • noun. A natural outer covering; an integument.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A cover; an envelop; a natural covering or protection of the body or a part of it; a tegmen or tegmentum.
  • noun. Specifically— In zoology and anatomy, skin; the general covering of the body; the integument.
  • noun. In entomology: A tegmen; the wing-cover or elytrum of orthopterous insects: an erroneous use, apparently by confusion with tegmen, 5.
  • noun. Properly, the crust, or chitinous integument, of the body, as distinguished from the hairs, scales, etc., which may grow upon it.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A cover or covering; an integument.
  • noun. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something which covers; a covering or coating.
  • noun. A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
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    agnail  buff  cuticle  dewlap  foreskin  
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    hide  integument  skin