ascidium

American  

[uh-sid-ee-uhm] / əˈsɪd i əm /

noun

Botany, Mycology.

• ascidia
  plural

1. a baglike or pitcherlike part.

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ascidium British  

/ əˈsɪdɪəm /

noun

1. part of a plant that is shaped like a pitcher, such as the modified leaf of the pitcher plant

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ascidia
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of ascidium

1760–70; < New Latin < Greek askídion a small bag, equivalent to ask ( ós ) bag + -idion -idium

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ascidium ascidia

I have alluded to these cases more than once, but on this occasion a closer inspection of the structure of the ascidium is required.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

Interrupted leaves, with an ascidium on a naked prolongation of the midvein, are by no means limited to the Croton varieties.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

The base of this apical limb exhibits two connate lobes, forming together a wide cup or ascidium.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

They are narrower than those of the teasel, but this depends, as we have seen for the "one-leaved" ascidium, on the shape of the original leaf.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

Though it is of course conceded that the ascidium of Nepenthes has many secondary devices which are lacking in Croton, it seems hardly allowable to deny the possibility of an analogous origin for both.

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

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

But then all sorts of seemingly sudden variations are occasionally designated by the same term by one writer or another, and even accidental anomalies, such as teratological ascidia, are often said to arise by sports.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

So it is also with the double ascidia.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

Pitchers or ascidia, formed by the union of the margins of a leaf, are perhaps the best proof.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

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