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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Besides the above varieties of ascidia formed from the union of one or more leaves, there are others which seem to be the result of a peculiar excrescence or hypertrophy of the leaf.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Now it is easily understood that the contact or the separation of the lobes must play a part in the construction of the ascidia, as soon as the margins grow together.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
We have already mentioned these cups, and recall them in the present connection to use them as a prototype of the double ascidia.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
It had produced seven ascidia in all, each formed by the conversion of one leaflet on the trifoliolate leaves.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
The amphioxus reveals the great secret of the origin of the vertebrates from the invertebrate vermalia, and in its development and structure connects directly with certain lower tunicates, the ascidia.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
