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 mammalian integument includes various secretory glands, including sebaceous glands, eccrine glands, apocrine glands, and mammary glands.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The integument contains an opening called the micropyle, through which the pollen tube enters the embryo sac.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

A double-layered integument protects the megasporangium and, later, the embryo sac.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Exoskeleton, ek-sō-skel′e-tun, n. any structure produced by the hardening of the integument, as the scales of fish, but esp. when bony, as the carapace of the turtle, &c.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various