A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

tegens,-entis (part.B): covering, concealing [> tego,-xi,tectum, 3, to cover; shelter, protect, quard, defend; to bury, cover over; syn. operiens,-entis (part.B): covering; hiding]; cf. vestitus;

NOTE: not to be confused with texens,-entis (part.B), q.v.

tegit: third-person singular present active indicative: [he/she] it covers, covers over.

- [fungus] pulvis seminalis carneo-rufus, ex hymenio speciminum altiore loco affixorum delapsus, magnam saepe pilei partem tegit (S&A), seminal powder [i.e. spores] flesh-[i.e. a pinkish]- red, [fallen] discharged from the hymenium of specimens attached in a higher location, it often covers over a large part of the pileus.

tegitur: third-person singular present passive indicative: [he/she] it is covered, covered over;

- petalis lobulos medios tegentibus, with the petals covering the middle lobes.

- pili nigri dense plantam tegentes, the black hairs densely covering the plant.

- [moss] calyptra cuculliformis, capsulae dimidiam partem tegens, una cum operculo decidua, laevis (DozyMoek), calyptra hooded, covering a half-part of the capsule, one with the operculum [i.e. united to the operculum], deciduous, smooth.

- [alga] est membrana nempe epidermidis, quae ab interiore separatur et inflatur, dum strati interioris pars denudata sensim novo epidermide tegitur, quae aliquando sporifera evadit, unde sporae tunc membrana duplici coopertae sunt (Agardh), there is a membrane, namely of the epidermis, which is separated from the interior and inflated, then the denuded part of the inner layer gradually is covered with a new spidermis, which becomes at some time spore-bearing, from where then the spores are enveloped with a double membrane.

- [Fissidens; moss] folia conferta, basi se invicem subtegentia, complanata vel unum versus latus dejecta, the leaves compact, nearly cocealing each other alternately [i.e. one after the other] at the base, complanate or one [leaf] lowered toward the side.