TEGUMENTS
Definition
TEGUMENTS is the plural of TEGUMENT.
noun TEGUMENT: a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch.
Examples
- “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)”