integument
pronunciation
How to pronounce integument in British English:
UK [ɪn'tegjʊmənt]
How to pronounce integument in American English:
US [ɪn'tegjəmənt]
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- Noun:
- an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
Word Origin
- integument
- integument: see protect
- integument (n.)
- 1610s, from Latin integumentum "a covering," from integere "to cover over," from in- "in, upon" (see in- (2)) + tegere "to cover" (see stegosaurus).
Example
- 1. The cells of the integument and nucellus of some plants form perfectly normal embryos .
- 2. A natural outer covering , such as the fur of an animal ; an integument .
- 3. One morning the few lonely trees and the thorns of the hedgerows appeared as if they had put off a vegetable for an animal integument .
- 4. The newly isolated carboxylic transport protein ( ctp ) gene of insect pathogenic fungi is implicated in energy metabolism during fungal penetration of insect integument .
- 5. Recently , more and more attention was paid on insect chitinase in plant pest control , for it could degrade chitin , one of the main components of insect integument and petritropic membrane .