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English
Etymology
From Latin indumentum.
Noun
indumentum (plural indumenta)
- (botany) A surface covering of any kind of trichomes, e.g. hairs, scales.
Latin
Etymology
From induō + -mentum.
Noun
indūmentum n (genitive indūmentī); second declension
- (post-Classical, rare) garment
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “indumentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- indumentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “indumentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers