ascidium

American  

[uh-sid-ee-uhm] / əˈsɪd i əm /

noun

Botany, Mycology.

plural

ascidia

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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Etymology

Origin of ascidium

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

Example Sentences

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 Vries, Hugo de

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 Vries, Hugo de

This tube must bear at its summit the conical ascidium produced by the two connate limbs.

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

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 Vries, Hugo de

By this contrivance the double ascidium assumes a terminal position.

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