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

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 Humboldt, Alexander von

As it ripens the yellow external tegument opens, revealing the dark-red mace, that is closely enwrapped about a thin black shell.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various