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an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"
the frame or body of ship
remove the husks from; "husk corn" (同)shell
outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
of or relating to the integument (同)integumental

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(動物の)外皮;(植物)珠皮(しゅひ)
(穀物などの)外皮,殻;(豆の)さや;(イチゴなどの)へた / (一般に)おおい / …‘の'さやをむく(shell)
主船体(マスト・煙突などを含まない)
(穀物・果実の)殻,さや,皮;《米》とうもろこしの殻 / 《通例複数形で》無価値なもの,かす / …‘の'殻を取る,皮をはぐ
(果物・チーズなどの)皮,外皮

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This article deals with the general meaning of the integument. Consult list of articles below for other articles dealing with similar or related concepts

"Integument" is a general term in biology that refers most commonly to the natural covering of an organism or an organ, such as its skin, husk, shell, or rind.^[1]

It derives from integumentum, which means "a covering" in Latin. In a transferred or figurative sense, it could mean a cloak or a disguise.^[2] In English "integument" is a fairly modern word, its origin having been traced back to the early seventeenth century. It can mean a material or layer with which anything is enclosed, clothed, or covered in the sense of "clad" or "coated", as with a skin or husk.^[1]

Botanical usage[edit]

In botany the senses are similar to those in zoology, referring to the covering of an organ, but when the context indicates nothing to the contrary, the word commonly refers to an envelope of one or more cell layers covering the ovule, leaving only a pore, the micropyle, through which the pollen tube can enter. It also can refer to the testa, or seed coat.

Zoological usage[edit]

The integument of an organ in zoology typically would comprise membranes of connective tissue such as those around a kidney or liver. In referring to the integument of an animal, the usual sense is its skin and its derivatives: the integumentary system, where "integumentary" is a simile for "cutaneous".

In arthropods, the integument, or external "skin", consists of a single layer of epithelial ectoderm from which arises the cuticle,^[3] an outer covering of chitin the rigidity of which varies as per its chemical composition.

Derivative terms and sundry usages[edit]

Derivative terms include various adjectival forms such as integumentary (e.g. system), integumental (e.g. integumental glands, "peltate glands, the integument being raised like a bladder due to abundant secretion"^[4]) and integumented (as opposed to bare).^[5]

Other illustrative examples of usage occur in the following articles:

Connective tissue in skeletal muscle
Dorsal artery of the penis (example of integument enclosing an internal organ)
Flensing
Flesh (generic use of plural "integuments")
Herzog & de Meuron (figurative usage)
Integumentary system (senses related to vertebrate skin and medical aspects)
Integumental muscles
Mosasaur#Soft tissue
Seed

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Brown, Lesley (1993). The New shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon. ISBN 0-19-861271-0.
^ Marchant, J.R.V. ; Charles Joseph F. (1952). Cassell's Latin dictionary. London: Cassell.
^ Kristensen, Niels P.; Georges, Chauvin (1 December 2003). "Integument". Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies: Morphology, Physiology, and Development : Teilband. Walter de Gruyter. p. 484. ISBN 978-3-11-016210-3. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
^ Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928
^ Collocott, T. C. (ed.) (1974). Dictionary of science and technology. Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers. ISBN 0-550-13202-3.

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