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integument
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tags: [anatomy] [rare]
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Definition:the outer protective layer of an animal, plant or organ; be it skin, feathers, shell, scales, rind, etc.
image: by Paul Gauguin (the integument of some apples)
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bloody; hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes.
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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The skin or tactile organ is the integument. The tongue or taste organ is but the integument folded inwards and a little modified.
Edward Aveling. The Gospel of Evolution (1884)
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