tegument

A natural outer covering; an integument.

A cover; an envelop; a natural covering or protection of the body or a part of it; a tegmen or tegmentum.

Specifically— In zoology and anatomy, skin; the general covering of the body; the integument.

In entomology: A tegmen; the wing-cover or elytrum of orthopterous insects: an erroneous use, apparently by confusion with tegmen, 5.

Properly, the crust, or chitinous integument, of the body, as distinguished from the hairs, scales, etc., which may grow upon it.

A cover or covering; an integument.

Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

Something which covers; a covering or coating.

A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch