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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tegmen  \Teg"men\,  n.;  pl  {Tegmina}.  [L.,  fr  tegere,  tectum,  to 
  cover.] 
  1.  A  tegument  or  covering. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  The  inner  layer  of  the  coating  of  a  seed,  usually 
  thin  and  delicate;  the  endopleura. 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  One  of  the  elytra  of  an  insect,  especially  of 
  certain  Orthoptera. 
 
  4.  pl  (Zo["o]l.)  Same  as  {Tectrices}. 

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