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

The outer tegument of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united along its margins, but always more or less open at its apex.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

The second tegument of the almonds is membranaceous, and of a brown-yellow.

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