either of the leathery forewings of the cockroach and related insects
2.
the delicate inner covering of a seed
3.
any similar covering or layer
Derived forms
tegminal (ˈtegminal)
adjective
Word origin
C19: from Latin: a cover, variant of tegimen, from tegere to cover
Examples of 'tegmina' in a sentence
tegmina
The females produce very short sounds by fast closing movements of the tegmina.
Klaus-Gerhard Heller, Olga Korsunovskaya, Bruno Massa, Ionuț Ștefan Iorgu 2018, 'High-speed duetting – latency times of the female acoustic response within the bush-cricketgenera Leptophyes and Andreiniimon (Orthoptera, Phaneropteridae)', ZooKeyshttps://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=23874. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)