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tegument

[teg-yuh-muhnt] / ˈtɛg jə mənt /




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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

Under this tegument is found a very thin, colorless membrane, which, with the testa or episperm, forms two per cent. of the weight of the wheat.

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

They have all strength enough to break the ligneous tegument of the seed; they get out the kernel, and carry it to the tops of the trees.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

The fruit, which somewhat resembles a pear, has a rough tegument covered with minute prickles, which instantly enter the hand which touches them, however slightly, and are very difficult to extract. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow


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