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
The outer tegument of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united along its margins, but always more or less open at its apex.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
They are developed as tubercles or folds in the tegument, and are homologous with the legs.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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)
