tegument
Example Sentences
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Sunlight streams through the big picture window, though it’s cold, down to zero overnight, and the lake is sealed beneath a hard uneven tegument of ice so thick you could drive a truck across it.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2010
But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none.
From Time Magazine Archive
No. 4 represents the endocarp, or last tegument of the berry; the sarcocarp, which should be found between the numbers 2 and 3, no longer exists, having been absorbed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
Certainly Nature, foreseeing the cruel usage which this useful servant to man should receive at man's hand, did prudently in furnishing him with a tegument impervious to ordinary stripes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
The fruit, which somewhat resembles a pear, has a rough tegument covered with minute prickles, which instantly enter the hand which touches them, however slightly, and are very difficult to extract.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
