tegument

See also: tégument

English

Etymology

From Latin tegumentum, from tegere ‘to cover’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɡjʊmənt/

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.

Translations

something which covers

• Ido: tegumento (io)

• Welsh: gorchudd (cy) m, pilyn m, tegmentwm m