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

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

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)

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