ascidium
noun
a baglike or pitcherlike part.
ascidia
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pluralof ascidium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It should be added that this explanation of the different shapes of ascidia is of general validity.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
The first bore one small pitcher-like blade, the second and third, each one highly modified organ, the fourth, two ascidia, and the last, one leaflet with slightly connate margins.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
I have seen many hundred ascidia on one lime-tree, and far above a hundred on the magnolia.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
We meet the same simple medullary tube in the first structure of the ascidia larva, in the same characteristic position, above the chorda.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Some species have more rounded and some more elongated ascidia and often the shape is seen to change with the development of the stem.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
