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Meaning of "tegmen" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TEGMEN

From Latin: a cover, variant of tegimen, from tegere to cover.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TEGMEN

ˈtɛɡmən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEGMEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tegmen is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TEGMEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tegmen

A tegmen designates the modified leathery front wing on an insect particularly in the orders Dermaptera, Orthoptera, Mantodea, Phasmatodea and Blattodea.

Definition of tegmen in the English dictionary

The first definition of tegmen in the dictionary is either of the leathery forewings of the cockroach and related insects. Other definition of tegmen is the delicate inner covering of a seed. Tegmen is also any similar covering or layer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TEGMEN

bagman · batman · Bergman · cayman · common · dogman · flagman · fogman · frogman · german · gigman · Hoffman · human · legman · phlegmon · roman · Simon · Solomon · woman · Yemen

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TEGMEN

teff · tefillah · tefillin · TEFL · Teflon · teg · tegmental · tegmentum · tegmina · tegminal · tegu · tegua · Tegucigalpa · tegula · tegular · tegularly · tegulated · tegument · tegumental · tegumentary

WORDS THAT END LIKE TEGMEN

bagmen · bogmen · dogmen · flagmen · frogmen · hangmen · legmen · pigmen · ragmen · strongmen · swagmen · tithingmen · wingmen · workingmen

Synonyms and antonyms of tegmen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tegmen» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF TEGMEN

Find out the translation of tegmen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tegmen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tegmen» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

天盖
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

tegmina
570 millions of speakers
en

English

tegmen
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

tegmen
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السقيف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

тегмена
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

tegmem
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বীজ-অন্তস্ত্বক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

tegmen
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tegmen
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

tegmen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

tegmen
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

tegmen
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tegese
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tegmen
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

tegmen
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

टेगमेन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tegmen
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

tegmen
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

tegmen
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

тегми
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

tegumentul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Tegmen
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tegmen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tegmen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tegmen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tegmen

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TEGMEN»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tegmen

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEGMEN»

Discover the use of tegmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tegmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Manual of Middle Ear Surgery
The middle fossa dura plate is the roof, or teg- men, of the pneumatized spaces of the temporal bone. The tegmen is divided into the tegmen mas- toidei, the most lateral part: the tegmen antri at the level of the mastoid antrum: and the tegmen ...
Mirko Tos, 1995
2
Head & Neck Surgery--otolaryngology
If a tegmen defect is small and the dura is intact, no further treatment is necessary . ... One should circumferentially elevate the dura from the tegmen with a blunt instrument and remove 1 mm of bone from around the site of injury to expose ...
Byron J. Bailey, Jonas T. Johnson, Shawn D. Newlands, 2006
3
Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear
Diamond burrs are very good at delicate dissection around important structures, thinning the bone off the sigmoid sinus, tegmen, facial nerve, and opening the facial recess. During the mastoidectomy, larger burrs are used first and the ...
Aina J. Gulya, Lloyd B. Minor, Dennis Poe, 2010
4
Atlas of Head & Neck Surgery--otolaryngology
Brain herniation, meningoencephaloceles, and CSF leaks through the tegmen, roof of the eustachian tube, or posterior fossa at Traut- mann's triangle 2. CSF leaks through the labyrinth into the middle ear SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS 1.
Byron J. Bailey, 2001
5
Imaging of the Temporal Bone
Praise for this book:This book is highly recommended and should find its way onto the library shelf of every neuroradiology section.
Joel D. Swartz, Laurie A. Loevner, 2011
6
Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and ...
On the basis of seed-coat structure, 3 seed types have been recognised by Bouman (in van Bruggen 1985): (1) Double-coated seeds developing from bitegmic ovules. Testa separable from the tegmen. Testa 3- 4-layered, with ridges or small ...
Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber, 1998
7
Handbook of Plant Ecophysiology Techniques
Surprisingly, the first structure that protrudes from the micropyle of the moistened seed, is not the radicle, as in seeds from most species, but the inner integument ( tegmen) of the seed coat (Figure 6B). When the germination proceeds further, ...
M. J. Reigosa Roger, 2001
8
Echinoderm Paleobiology
... anitaxial ridge absent, posterior interray wider than normal interrays, tegmen height low, robust tegmen strength, tegmen depressed interradially, tegmen with ambulacrals and orals differentiated, anal tube absent, and eccentric positioned ...
William Irl Ausich, Gary D. Webster, 2008
9
The Seeds of Dicotyledons
Tegmen 10-12 cells thick; o.e. as a narrow layer of longitudinally elongate, lignified, tracheidal cells with transversely pitted walls; o.h. as a layer of shortly radially elongate or cuboid cells with thinly lignified walls; mesophyll aerenchymatous, ...
10
Dictionary of Insect Morphology
Siphonaptera _ tectum tectum penis _ penial Sheath tegmen, pl. ~s, mina: the fore wing of Dermaptera and Cicadidae abbreviate tegmen, tegmen abbreviatum: the tegmen is very short, scarcely covers the thorax elongate tegmen, tegmen ...
Henrik Steinmann, Lajos Zombori, 1999

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEGMEN»

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State House defends Waiguru over NYS scam
... include: Form and Homes Builders, Draco Capital, Roof and All Trading, Reinforced Concrete Technologies, Grumum Engineering and Tegmen Trading. «Capital FM Kenya, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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