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n. A natural outer covering; an integument.

n. Something which covers; a covering or coating.

n. A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

n. A cover or covering; an integument.

n. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

n. A cover; an envelop; a natural covering or protection of the body or a part of it; a tegmen or tegmentum.

n. Specifically— In zoology and anatomy, skin; the general covering of the body; the integument.

n. In entomology: A tegmen; the wing-cover or elytrum of orthopterous insects: an erroneous use, apparently by confusion with tegmen, 5.

n. Properly, the crust, or chitinous integument, of the body, as distinguished from the hairs, scales, etc., which may grow upon it.

n. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

"People climbed the trees to shake down the nuts, many still sheathed in the bright-green fleshy tegument, while other family members and relations combed the forest floor and picked them up."

connective tissue    body covering   

prepuce    foreskin    investment    skin graft    cuticle    thickskin    agnail    buff    dewlap    hangnail   

integument    skin    hide   

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