tegument

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/

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tegument (plural teguments)

1. (uncommon) 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.

• tegumental
• tegumentary
• tegumented

• integument

Borrowed from French tégument, from Latin tegumentum.

tegument n (plural tegumente)

1. tegument