tegmen

Meaning of tegmen

noun
  1. a sclerotized forewing serving to cover the hindwing in grasshoppers and related insects.
  2. the delicate inner protective layer of a seed.
  3. a plate of thin bone forming the roof of the middle ear, a part of the temporal bone.

early 19th century: from Latin, ‘covering’, from tegere ‘to cover’.

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Hyphenation of tegmen

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  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tegmen is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

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