Crossword-Solution: TEGUMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tegument | n. | A cover or covering; an integument. |
| Tegument | n. | Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “TEGUMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANIMAL body covering, part of | 1 answer |
| Skin, shell or husk. | 1 answer |
| protective layer around an ovule | 1 answer |
| natural covering | 2 answers |
| Seed coating | 3 answers |
| Coating. | 24 answers |
| COVERING ___ | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TEGUMENT (5)
The fruit, which somewhat resembles a pear, has a rough tegument covered with minute prickles, which instantly enter the hand which touches them, however slightly, and are very difficult to extract.
But in the Homerical urn of Patroclus, whatever was the solid tegument, we find the immediate covering to be a purple piece of silk: and such as had no covers might have the earth closely pressed into them, after which disposure were probably some of these, wherein we found the bones and ashes half mortared unto the sand and sides of the urn, and some long roots of quich, or dog’s-grass, wreathed about the bones.
His whole face seemed to have been pinched and hammered together, so that it looked like a mask of pale bronze--a death mask, for it was hard to believe that blood ran below that dry tegument.
The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon.
They have all strength enough to break the ligneous tegument of the seed; they get out the kernel, and carry it to the tops of the trees.
Quotes with TEGUMENT (1)
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).