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tegument
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tegument has 1 sense
- tegument(n = noun.body) cutis, skin - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" has particulars: investment, thick skin, skin graft, buff, dewlap, foreskin, prepuce, foreskin, prepuce, scalp, cuticle, agnail, hangnail
is a kind of body covering, connective tissue
has parts: pressure point, cuticle, epidermis, skin cell, corium, derma, dermis, macula, macule, freckle, lentigo, liver spot, milium, whitehead, blackhead, comedo, pore, scab, sudoriferous gland, sweat gland, free nerve ending, pacinian corpuscle, crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle
is a part of integumentary system
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tegument, n. the natural covering of an animal's body or part of its body.
Derivative
tegumental adj. tegumentary adj.
Etymology
L tegumentum f. tegere cover
ROGET THESAURUS
tegument
Covering
N covering, cover, baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin, canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade, veil (shade), shield, roof, ceiling, thatch, tile, pantile, pentile, tiling, slates, slating, leads, barrack, plafond, planchment, tiling, shed, top, lid, covercle, door, operculum, bulkhead, bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall, coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget, housing, antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip, linoleum, saddle cloth, blanket cloth, tidy, tilpah, apishamore, integument, tegument, skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide, pelt, peltry, cordwain, derm, robe, buffalo robe, cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis, clothing, mask, peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat, eggshell, glume, capsule, sheath, sheathing, pod, cod, casing, case, theca, elytron, elytrum, involucrum, wrapping, wrapper, envelope, vesicle, corn husk, corn shuck, dermatology, conchology, testaceology, inunction, incrustation, superimposition, superposition, obduction, scale, veneer, facing, overlay, plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate, engobe, ormolu, Sheffield plate, pavement, coating, paint, varnish, plating, barrel plating, anointing, enamel, epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition, ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo, cerement, ointment, covering, superimposed, overlaid, plated, cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous, covered, imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad, under cover, cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform, vaginate.
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