What does integument mean?
Integument means A shell or other outer protective layer..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ɪnˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/ · noun
A shell or other outer protective layer..
The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.
[…] if we're moved by the book's condemnation of a world wounded by exploitation, where the drive for profit hobbles the mass of humanity, bolsters vast integuments of oppression and repression, […]
Sarsem became a naked young epicene in an integument of lavender scales with puffs of purple hair like pom-poms growing down his back.
Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!
Use integument when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Integument means A shell or other outer protective layer..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.