Definitions for integuments

integuments in·teg·u·ment

Spelling: [in-teg-yuh-muh nt]
IPA: /ɪnˈtɛg yə mənt/

Integuments is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 493 anagrams from letters in integuments (eegimnnsttu).

Definitions for integuments

noun

  1. a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
  2. any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.

Origin of integuments

First recorded in 1605-15, integument is from the Latin word integumentum a covering. See in-2, tegument

Examples for integuments

The knee is free and not united to the side of the body by integument.

Ex., the integument into which the valves of Chitones are inserted.

The integument of the roof of the mouth was smooth and shining.

Its freedom from causing great shrinking or shrivelling of the integument.

The sense-organs of man are all found to be only so many modifications of the integument.

Their integument is hardened with plates or particles of carbonate of lime.

In all other forms the shell is internal or is invested in the integument of the mantle.

Man alone, the last in the series, was created from the integument of a dog.

The integument is leathery, and the color brown of varying shades.

There are no spines nor hooks on the integument of the elongated body.

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