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Integument

noun

An outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell.

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... independence of the fate of the alimentary canal and its annexes becomes necessary for the voluntary executive organs, the ventral plates undergo a process of splitting, leading to the formation of the sensitive part of the integument (the Hautplatten), the muscular part of the alimentary tube (the Darmfaserplatten), and the mother-tissue of the generative organs (the Mittelplatten). From the Hautplatten there develops, without the dorsal plates seeming to take any part in the process, ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

... passer-by where relief from all curable infirmities was to be sought and found. Its brilliancy attracted the attention of a devious youth, who dashed his fist through the glass and upset my modest luminary. All he got by his vivacious assault was that he left portions of integument from his knuckles upon the glass, had a lame hand, was very easily identified, and had to pay the glazier's bill. The moral is that, if the brilliancy of another's reputation excites your belligerent instincts, it is not ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... are somewhat similar. The latter observer considers that the funiculus, with the integuments, is the equivalent of a leaflet, the petiolule or midrib of which answers to the funiculus, and its hollow expansion to the integument. The nucleus itself is considered to be a new formation ...

— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters

... say, out of the depths of his moral consciousness. His benignant and imperturbable pomposity gave Roderick the sense of suffocating beneath a large fluffy bolster, and the worst of the matter was that the good gentleman's placid vanity had an integument whose toughness no sarcastic shaft could pierce. Roderick admitted that in thinking over the tribulations of struggling genius, the danger of dying of over-patronage had ...

— Roderick Hudson • Henry James

... preacher was of a very different mind from the three bishops. Instead of dwelling upon the "supreme importance of the purely spiritual in our faith," he warned his hearers against dropping off any of the miraculous integument of their religion. "Christianity is essentially miraculous, and falls to the ground if miracles be impossible." He was uncompromisingly opposed to any accommodation with advancing knowledge, or with the high standard of veracity, enforced by the nature of their ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

Words linked to "Integument" : integumentary, natural covering, covering, cover