integument , also: tegument

The ovules have been described as having one integument or two.

Even the integuments of the present discussion were to remain in this conference chamber.

The blue integument felt cold in the winter air.

"I notice you are losing your outer integument in spots."

Almost nothing is known about the toxic substances used, but they are probably contained within the integument.

By 1896 it was mentioned as being without its integuments, and only the bones are believed to remain today.

One leg had been blown away, the other was held together by shreds of integument.

Its verbal integuments were no longer the scriptures, but canon law.

The integument is a dark brown in color.

The problem, stripped of its integument of professional terms, was simple.

Males are also distinguished from females by having the integument of the lower face yellow, rather than black.

The inside of her body pulsed and moved, leaving the outside a thin cold integument, stranded.

He marveled at an organism whose wastes were toxic to its own integument.

He wondered how he was going to escape with his integument intact.

They have a dry integument with some scaling and radically different internal structures.

The enzyme enables us to repair much of the damage to the skin, the integument.

The empty integuments of grand buildings began to fill.

If integuments are any good to you, I might have some spare slops."

So did the wrinkles and sags in his integument.

The future can sometimes be revealed directly, but often dreams rely on integument, allegory, and figure.

"We all work, Carl," he explained, his voice a scaly integument.

The body is covered by an integument and the plates are arranged in a longitudinal series on the rays.

An integument is a protective cell layer surrounding the ovule.

It is the only known Mus species to lose its tail integument when handled.

Margaret, whose name means "pearl," begins in the integument of her flesh to produce pearls.