TEGUMENT
Scrabble letter values: T1E1G2U1M3E1N1T1 = 11
Definition
- noun a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch. — synonyms: skin, cutis
Examples
- “your skin is the largest organ of your body”
- “1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)”