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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Tegmen \[d8]Teg"men\, n.; pl. {Tegmina}. [L., fr. tegere, tectum, to cover.] 1. A tegument or covering. 2. (Bot.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. 3. (Zo[94]l.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera. 4. pl. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Tectrices}. | |
