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
The tegument of these pseudospores, above all in those which have germinated, and have consequently become more transparent, it is easy to see has many pores, or round ostioles.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The second tegument of the almonds is membranaceous, and of a brown-yellow.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
