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Definition of Indumentum
1. Noun. A covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect.
Medical Definition of Indumentum
1. The epidermal appendages (for example hairs or scales), collectively. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indumentum
Literary usage of Indumentum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"Whether this curious and most conspicuous indumentum occurs in other species of
the genus, I do not know ; as, with this exception, not one of the species ..."
2. A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English: Compiled from the Most Approved by Samuel Lee (1840)
"Gesenius takes them to be looking-glasses : but without any good reason for doing
so. , indumentum: II. Applied to folding doors, as revolving on their ..."
3. Historical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester: Published in by James Tait (1907)
"... alta nisi usque ad mentum, nee de cetero facere sibi de novo fieri aliquod
tale indumentum quod sit ... vel indumentum quod esset contra istum ordinem, ..."
4. Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A Treatise on Structural Botany by Henry Hurd Rusby, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1895)
"If a hairy indumentum is fine and of an ashy gray color, the hairs not arranged
in any ... A surface which possesses an indumentum of scales is called ..."
5. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"It is Scurfy when covered with more or less of an indumentum in the form of ...
If a hairy indumentum is fine and of an ashy-gray color, the hairs not ..."
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