Words That End With: MINA

• A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism.

• An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed.

• A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals.

• In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the tegmina are the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. Note that the more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.

• enduring strength and energy

• any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum

• In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.

• The cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ.

• The cavity bounded by a plant cell wall.

• The bore of a tube such as a hollow needle or catheter.

• a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)

• The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants.