Crossword clues for integument
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Integument \In*teg"u*ment\, n. [L. integumentum, fr. integere to cover; pref. in- in, on + tegere to cover: cf. F. int['e]gument. See 1st n-, and Tegument.] That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin integumentum "a covering," from integere "to cover over," from in- "in, upon" (see in- (2)) + tegere "to cover" (see stegosaurus).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell. 2 (context botany English) The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
WordNet
n. an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
Wikipedia
In biology, integument is the natural covering of an organism or an organ, such as its skin, husk, shell, or rind.
It derives from integumentum, which means "a covering" in Latin. In a transferred or figurative sense, it could mean a cloak or a disguise. In English "integument" is a fairly modern word, its origin having been traced back to the early seventeenth century. It can mean a material or layer with which anything is enclosed, clothed, or covered in the sense of "clad" or "coated", as with a skin or husk.
Usage examples of "integument".
It then passed anteriorly under the muscles and integument in the axillary space, along the upper third of the humerus, which was extended beyond the head, the external skin not being ruptured.
They wandered onward, and the green bioluminescence of the Integument began to die down.
What deceives you is the epicanthus, a racial variation, consisting in a sort of ridge of integument that runs from the bridge of the nose to the eyelid, and comes down over the inside corner of the eye.
Through this temporary protection the active pupa, which closely resembles the mature insect, subsequently bites a way by means of its strong mandibles, and rising to the surface of the water casts the pupal integument and becomes sexually adult.
Exposed to the intense heat, the chemical compounds ignited in a flash explosion that sent the huge body of the Melodist flying across the choreochamber, shredding its limbs along the way and carbonizing its integument.
Wellearn slid overside, but he was aware how dangerous salt could be to someone with a weakened integument, so he wasted no time in striking out for shore.
Perhaps he has radiographic eyes, and sees through the opaque integument of a ground-sheet at one glance.
Dufour has detailed a case of a young man of twenty whose sacral region contained a tuft of hair as long and black, thick and pliant, as that of the head, and, particularly remarkable in this case, the skin from which it grew was as fine and white as the integument of the rest of the body.
And they started out in the mycelia and then were adopted by the Met Integument.
No heads, claws, distal phalanges, teeth, or outer integument present.
As the protuberances continued to swell, their dull gray integuments became almost translucent.
The severe pains and livid patches were frequently associated with swellings in various parts, and especially in the lower extremities, accompanied with stiffness and contractions of the knee joints and ankles, and often with a brawny feel of the parts, as if lymph had been effused between the integuments and apeneuroses, preventing the motion of the skin over the swollen parts.
The result would be a soldier virus that would invade the neural integuments and corrupt their ability to carry data.
Egdon Mire, he would rise again somewhere at some time, shaking from his limbs the musty integuments of the tomb.
But no, the forces were allowed to invade when and where and as they saw fit in no less than five integuments, which Arthur and his army easily defeated.