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tegument

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/Part of speech nounSorted eegmnttuStarts with TEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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)

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