tegument

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/

Definition of tegument

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncommon)Something which covers; a covering or coating.
    “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)”
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noun

  1. (uncommon)Something which covers; a covering or coating.
    “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. (obsolete)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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