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noun

Tegument n.

A cover or covering; an integument.

Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

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Etymology of 'Tegument'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tegument" Quotes from Famous Books

... the gereet, or branches, are made wicker baskets, bedsteads, coops, and ceilings of rooms, answering every purpose for which laths or any thin woodwork are required; the leaves are converted into mats, brooms, and baskets; of the fibrous tegument as the base of the branches, strong ropes and mats are made, and even the thick ends of the gereet are beaten ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... invariably select one part of his body on which to fasten their relentless grinders. The part thus selected is peculiarly susceptible, Providence having made it alive to the least nibble; it is situated just above the hip-joint, it is protected by a tegument of exquisite fibre, vulgarly called "THE BREECHES POCKET." The thoroughbred Anthropophagite usually begins with his own relations and friends; and so long as he confines his voracity to the domestic circle, ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton