Definitions for tegmen

tegmen teg·men

Spelling: [teg-muh n]
IPA: /ˈtɛg mən/

Tegmen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in tegmen (eegmnt).

Definitions for tegmen

noun

  1. a cover, covering, or integument.
  2. Botany. the delicate inner integument or coat of a seed.
  3. (of certain orthopterous insects) one of a pair of leathery forewings that forms a protective covering for the hind wings.

Origin of tegmen

1800-10; Latin: covering (also tegumen, tegimen with anaptyctic vowel), equivalent to teg(ere) to cover + -men noun suffix

Examples for tegmen

Thus, if the procedure be carried out through the tegmen tympani, the brain is explored in an upward direction.

The tegmen tympani are much reduced and maintain only cartilaginous contact with the posterior arms of the squamosals.

In the Orthoptera the position is quite different, for one tegmen more or less lies over the other.

Its roof, the tegmen tympani, is continuous with that of the attic.

The tegmen tympani are relatively large, but proportionately short.

tegmen: a covering: sometimes used for the anterior wings in Orthoptera and Neuroptera.

Word Value for tegmen
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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