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.

After all what is this mortal tegument but a shell which a man sloughs off in eternal evolution.

From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona

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 Humboldt, Alexander von