tegument
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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
After all what is this mortal tegument but a shell which a man sloughs off in eternal evolution.
From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple
The ripe pseudospores are enveloped in a thick tegument, of a dark brown colour.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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 Alexander von Humboldt
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