integument
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Similar to a hypodermic needle, a nematode uses its stylet to pierce cells and pull out food -- in this case from the pseudoscorpion's hypodermis, part of the outer covering known as the integument.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
The layer of sporophyte tissue that surrounds the megasporangium, and later, the embryo, is called the integument.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
This is covered by a layer known as the integument.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The mammalian integument includes various secretory glands, including sebaceous glands, eccrine glands, apocrine glands, and mammary glands.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Worms differ from the other four groups in having no articulated appendages, and in having a soft body-wall or integument instead of a dense chitinous covering, and are separated as a special class Vermes.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
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