tegument

Example Sentences

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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

On the contrary, the tegument is frequently left entirely intact, especially when the injury follows infectious diseases or occurs during light exercise after long periods of rest in the stable.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

The ripe pseudospores are enveloped in a thick tegument, of a dark brown colour.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

No. 4 represents the endocarp, or last tegument of the berry; the sarcocarp, which should be found between the numbers 2 and 3, no longer exists, having been absorbed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various