tegument

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something which covers; a covering or coating. uncommon
    — 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. A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument. obsolete

词形变化

teguments plural

词汇关系

衍生词
tegumental tegumentary tegumented
相关词
integument

词源

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.
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