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Webster 1913 Edition

Tegument

Teg′u-ment

,
Noun.
[L.
tegumentum
, from
tegere
to cover. See
Thatch
,
Noun.
, and cf.
Detect
,
Protect
.]
1.
A cover or covering; an integument.
2.
Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tegument

TEG'UMENT

,
Noun.
[L. tegumentum, from tego, to cover.]
A cover or covering; seldom used except in reference to the covering of a living body. [See Integument.]

Definition 2024

tegument

tegument

See also: tégument

English

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

Etymology

From Latin tegumentum, from tegere ‘to cover’.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛɡjʊmənt/

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