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
The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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
Under this tegument is found a very thin, colorless membrane, which, with the testa or episperm, forms two per cent. of the weight of the wheat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
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