Word for today - INTEGUMENT
INTEGUMENT: a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
Used in an ordinary sentence: When I see pictures on t-v of wriggling bugs, it absolutely makes my integument crawl.
Some of you may wonder if I sit down with a dictionary & choose words to feature; au contraire! The words I share are ones that have come up in my reading or in a crossword, ones that I have had to look up for my own understanding. I like to think I'm saving you the trouble of having to look up these useful words.
posted by Grandma Barb @ 1:30 PM
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2 Comments:
The challenge with this word is to come up with an instance in which using "integument" would be a better choice than, say, "skin, shell, rind, etc." It occurs to me that the adjectival form might be more likely to come in handy, as in "The proximity of the snake gave rise to integumental concerns for the man, snail, and orange."
I thought that brb's comment was so inventive that I read it to my roommate. His reaction was, "Okay."
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