Integument

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Integument stands for:

  • Integument (botany) , part of the ovule of the seed plants
  • Integument (zoology) , the outer body covering of all tissue animals
  • Integument (virology) , an outer layer around the actual capsid of the virions (virus particles), for example protein filaments (fibrils) in many species of the genus Mimivirus