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

Several other characteristics are distinctive to mammals, including certain features of the jaw, skeleton, integument, and internal anatomy.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Epithelial tissues include the epidermis of the integument, the lining of the digestive tract and trachea, and make up the ducts of the liver and glands of advanced animals.

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