Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tegument"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tegument \Teg"u*ment\, n. [L. tegumentum, from tegere to cover.
See {Thatch}, n., and cf. {Detect}, {Protect}.]
1. A cover or covering; an integument.
2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part
or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tegument
n : a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense
of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body"
[syn: {skin}, {cutis}]
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