tegument
Meanings
noun
- Something which covers; a covering or coating.
- A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.
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Etymology
Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.
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