The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tegmenta
Tegmentum \Teg*men"tum\, n.; pl. Tegmenta. [L., a covering.] (Anat.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
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tegmenta
n. (plural of tegmentum English)
Usage examples of "tegmenta".
The hellfloor was a crazy-quilt of living tissues, hides, mantlings and tegmenta: wet, barnacly stretches yielded to tough knolls and swales of plated scale that reeked like a bull Titanoplod in rut, these in turn yielding to meadows of black thorns as thick as fur.