Word Meanings - TEGMEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. (more info) 1. A tegument or covering.

Related words: (words related to TEGMEN)

• COATLESS
  Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INNERVATION
  Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
• TEGUMENT
  1. A cover or covering; an integument. 2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
• COATING
  1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. 2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• INNERLY
  More within. Baret.
• COATI
  A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose. Note: The red coati , called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati is found in Surinam and Brazil.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• INNERMOSTLY
  In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• ENDOPLEURA
  The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• COVER
  operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
• COAT
  coat of arms, cotte de mailles coat of mail, LL. cota, cotta, tunic, prob. of German origin; cf. OHG. chozzo coarse mantle, G. klotze, D. 1. An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men. Let each His
• COVERING
  Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• OVERCOAT
  A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
• TUXEDO COAT; TUXEDO
  A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.
• UNDERCOAT
  1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• INDELICATE
  Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse;