ascidium
[ uh-sid-ee-uhm ]
/ əˈsɪd i əm /
Save This Word!
noun, plural as·cid·i·a [uh-sid-ee-uh]. /əˈsɪd i ə/. Botany, Mycology.
a baglike or pitcherlike part.
QUIZZES
QUIZ YOURSELF ON THE MANY TYPES OF NOUNS
They're everywhere you turn, but can you identify the 10 types of nouns easily? This quiz will test your mettle against singular, plural, concrete, abstract, common, proper, collective, compound, countable, and uncountable nouns!
Question 1 of 7
Shoelaces, rainbow, toothpaste, and haircuts are all what type of noun?
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing
Origin of ascidium
Words nearby ascidium
Aschelminthes, Aschheim-Zondek test, Aschoff body, asci, ascidian, ascidium, ascigerous, ASCII, ascites, asclepiadaceous, Asclepiadean
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021
Example sentences from the Web for ascidium
It is not in all cases easy to trace the origin and true nature of the ascidium, as the venation is sometimes obscure.
Vegetable Teratology|Maxwell T. Masters
British Dictionary definitions for ascidium
ascidium
/ (əˈsɪdɪəm) /
noun plural -cidia (-ˈsɪdɪə)
part of a plant that is shaped like a pitcher, such as the modified leaf of the pitcher plant
Word Origin for ascidium
C18: from New Latin, from Greek askidion a little bag, from askos bag
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012