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What is the noun for integuments?

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integument
  1. (biology) An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
  2. (botany) The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “There are studies on the vasculature of the scaled integument of lizards and snakes.”
      “A nucellar dome has been formed in the massive nucellar cap and the integument has overgrown the nucellus and formed a wide-open micropyle.”
      “Sclerites are mounted on short stalks of the integument, connected to the undersurface of the central disc, and are external to the body surface.”
integumation
  1. The branch of physiology that deals with the integuments of animals and plants.
integumentation
  1. The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
integuments
  1. plural of integument
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Legumes possess highly differentiated seed coats that arise from the inner and outer integuments of the ovule.”
      “These filial organs are enclosed by a maternal seed coat, derived from one or both ovular integuments.”
      “The integuments grow with the embryo sac, and become brown and hard, forming the shell of the seed.”
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