noun
Meaning 1
A shell or other outer protective layer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
integument
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Pronunciation
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General-American, UK: /ɪnˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/
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noun
Meaning 2
An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: covering, natural covering, cover
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin integumentum (“a covering”).
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: външна обвивка (vǎnšna obvivka) — outer protective covering of body
- Dutch: bekleedsel — outer protective covering of body
- Dutch: huid — outer protective covering of body
- Finnish: integumentti — outer protective covering of body
- Finnish: ruumiinpeite — outer protective covering of body
- French: tégument — outer protective covering of body
- Ido: tegumento — outer protective covering of body
- Irish: seicin — outer protective covering of body
- Norwegian: integument — outer protective covering of body
- Polish: osłona — outer protective covering of body
- Polish: oprawa — outer protective covering of body
- Romanian: tegument — outer protective covering of body
- Romanian: înveliș — outer protective covering of body
- Russian: покро́в (pokróv) — outer protective covering of body
- Spanish: integumento — outer protective covering of body
- Ottoman Turkish: گوملك (gömlek) — outer protective covering of body
- Dutch: omhulsel — outer layer of an ovule
- Finnish: integumentti — outer layer of an ovule
- Finnish: siemenaiheen kalvo — outer layer of an ovule
- French: tégument — outer layer of an ovule
- Norwegian: integument — outer layer of an ovule
- Polish: syncytium — outer layer of an ovule
- Polish: zespólnia — outer layer of an ovule
- Polish: tegument — outer layer of an ovule