TEGUMENTS

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Scrabble letter values: T₁E₁G₂U₁M₃E₁N₁T₁S₁ = 12

Definition

TEGUMENTS is the plural of TEGUMENT.

noun TEGUMENT: a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch.

Synonyms of TEGUMENT: skin, cutis

“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)”