different between tegument vs integument

English

Etymology

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) +? -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.j?.m?nt/

Noun

tegument (plural teguments)

1. 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. (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

Derived terms

• tegumental
• tegumentary
• tegumented

Related terms

• integument

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French tégument, from Latin tegumentum.

Noun

tegument n (plural tegumente)

1. tegument

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integumentum (“a covering”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t??.j?.m?nt/
• (US)

Noun

integument (plural integuments)

1. (biology) An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
   • 1984, Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous:

     Sarsem became a naked young epicene in an integument of lavender scales with puffs of purple hair like pom-poms growing down his back.

2. (botany) The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.

Derived terms

• integumental
• integumentary

Related terms

• tegument

Translations

See also

• bitegmic
• endotegmic
• exotegmic
• mesotegmic
• unitegmic

Romanian

Etymology

From French integumentum, from Latin integumentum.

Noun

integument n (plural integumente)

1. integument

Declension