Tegmen

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A tegument or covering.

II. Tegmen ·noun ·same·as Tectrices.

III. Tegmen ·noun One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.

IV. Tegmen ·noun The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

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