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integument

[in-teg-yuh-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɛg yə mənt /


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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

The layer of sporophyte tissue that surrounds the megasporangium, and later, the embryo, is called the integument.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

This is covered by a layer known as the integument.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Velum, vē′lum, n. a velarium: the ciliated disc-like fold of the integument with which some embryo molluscs are provided:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various




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