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70:. In English, "integument" is a fairly modern word, its origin having been traced back to the early seventeenth century; and refers to a material or layer with which anything is enclosed, clothed, or covered in the sense of "clad" or "coated", as with a skin or husk. 86:. The integument may consist of one layer (unitegmic) or two layers (bitegmic), each of which consisting of two or more layers of cells. The integument is perforated by a pore, the micropyle, through which the pollen tube can enter. It may develop into the testa, or 140:
Derivative terms include various adjectival forms such as integumentary (e.g. system), integumental (e.g. integumental glands, "peltate glands, the integument being raised like a bladder due to abundant secretion") and integumented (as opposed to bare).
82:, the term "integument" may be used as it is in zoology, referring to the covering of an organ. When the context indicates nothing to the contrary, the word commonly refers to an envelope covering the nucellus of the 102:
typically would comprise membranes of connective tissue such as those around a kidney or liver. In referring to the integument of an animal, the usual sense is its skin and its derivatives: the
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Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928
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for "a covering". In a transferred, or figurative sense, it could mean a
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is the tissue surrounding an organism's body or an organ within, such as
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Other illustrative examples of usage occur in the following articles:
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Kristensen, Niels P.; Georges, Chauvin (1 December 2003).
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Index

skin
husk
shell
rind
Latin
cloak
disguise
botany
ovule
seed
zoology
integumentary system
cutaneous
arthropods
epithelial
ectoderm
cuticle
chitin
Connective tissue in skeletal muscle
Dorsal artery of the penis
Flensing
Flesh
Herzog & de Meuron
Integumentary system
Integumental muscles
Mosasaur
Seed


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