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An integument is a covering that wraps and protects what is inside — skin, a shell, a tough outer coat. use it for an animal’s outer covering. use it for the layers around an ovule, which help form the coat of a seed. It is a lab and textbook word. You would not call your an integument, even though a covers you; that would sound like a joke. For ordinary coverings, say skin, shell, or coating.
外皮、包被（生物學術語；植物胚珠外那層，課本常作「珠被」）
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
integumentnoun/ɪnˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/
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A shell or other outer protective layer.
- The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.
- […] if we're moved by the book's condemnation of a world wounded by exploitation, where the drive for profit hobbles the mass of humanity, bolsters vast integuments of oppression and repression, […]
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biologynatural-sciencesAn outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
- Sarsem became a naked young epicene in an integument of lavender scales with puffs of purple hair like pom-poms growing down his back.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
- Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。