Wondering how to use Integument in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as covering or cover.
Integument meaning
- A shell or other outer protective layer.
- An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
- The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
Using Integument
- The main meaning on this page is: A shell or other outer protective layer. | An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell. | The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
- Useful related words include: covering, natural covering, cover.
- In the example corpus, integument often appears in combinations such as: outer integument, integument and, inner integument.
Context around Integument
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Integument
- In this selection, "integument" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, outer, inner, neighboring, ending, may and forms stand out and add context to how "integument" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include between the integument and the and covered with integument and connected. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "integument" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with integument
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The inner integument may consist of eight to fifteen layers. (10 words)
Small-bodied invertebrates of aquatic or continually moist habitats respire using the outer layer (integument). (15 words)
These layers serve to give elasticity to the integument, allowing stretching and conferring flexibility, while also resisting distortions, wrinkling, and sagging. (21 words)
The seed coat forms from the two integuments or outer layers of cells of the ovule, which derive from tissue from the mother plant, the inner integument forms the tegmen and the outer forms the testa. (36 words)
It is composed of a thin plate of yellow elastic cartilage, covered with integument, and connected to the surrounding parts by ligaments and muscles; and to the commencement of the ear canal by fibrous tissue. (35 words)
The endotesta is derived from the inner epidermis of the outer integument, and the outer layer of the testa from the outer surface of the outer integument is referred to as the exotesta. (33 words)
Example sentences (12)
Bitegmic seeds form a testa from the outer integument and a tegmen from the inner integument while unitegmic seeds have only one integument.
The endotesta is derived from the inner epidermis of the outer integument, and the outer layer of the testa from the outer surface of the outer integument is referred to as the exotesta.
It is composed of a thin plate of yellow elastic cartilage, covered with integument, and connected to the surrounding parts by ligaments and muscles; and to the commencement of the ear canal by fibrous tissue.
Other seed appendages include the raphe (a ridge), wings, caruncles (a soft spongy outgrowth from the outer integument in the vicinity of the micropyle), spines, or tubercles.
Posteriorly, they are not really joined, but appear to become lost in the neighboring integument, ending close to, and nearly parallel to, each other.
Small-bodied invertebrates of aquatic or continually moist habitats respire using the outer layer (integument).
The inner integument may consist of eight to fifteen layers.
The mature inner integument has a palisade layer, a pigmented zone with 15-20 layers, while the innermost layer is known as the fringe layer.
The seed coat forms from the two integuments or outer layers of cells of the ovule, which derive from tissue from the mother plant, the inner integument forms the tegmen and the outer forms the testa.
These layers serve to give elasticity to the integument, allowing stretching and conferring flexibility, while also resisting distortions, wrinkling, and sagging.
When contact between the integument and the surrounding sea water solution is blocked, crocodiles are found to lose their ability to discriminate salinities.
Zoological usage The integument of an organ in zoology typically would comprise membranes of connective tissue such as those around a kidney or liver.
Common combinations with integument
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: