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Tegument

//ˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something which covers; a covering or coating. uncommon

    "1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)"

  2. 2
    a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch wordnet
  3. 3
    A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument. obsolete

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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