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Definition of Indument
1. Noun. A covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect.
Definition of Indument
1. n. Plumage; feathers.
Definition of Indument
1. Noun. (zoology) plumage; feathers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Indument
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Indument
Literary usage of Indument
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined Before the Committees of His Majesty by Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Jerome William Knapp (1834)
"The expression used, is 'indument ... Now property may be said to be indument
... not contend that the property in the Dutch part of the island was indument ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1892)
"pubescence dense, very short and matted on the disk with indument, ... The indument,
whether natural or acquired, could probably be removed like that on ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... all created understanding beings are neither body nor yet without body, but
have always a cognate or congenite body, as their vehicle or indument. ..."
4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"... white with a rather loose and flocculent (not compact and silvery) indument,
this deciduous, the leaves of the former year quite glabrous and of a light ..."
5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1901)
"... indument; petioles about twice the length of the blades and, together with
the peduncles, purplish, pruinose with small and not closely contiguous ..."
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