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Webster 1913 Edition

Tegmen

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Teg′men

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Tegmina

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.

[L., fr.

tegere

,

tectum

, to cover.]

1.

A tegument or covering.

2.

(Bot.)

The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

3.

(Zool.)

One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.

4.

pl.

(Zool.)

Same as

.