ascidium
Americannoun
plural
ascidianoun
Etymology
Origin of ascidium
1760–70; < New Latin < Greek askídion a small bag, equivalent to ask ( ós ) bag + -idion -idium
Example Sentences
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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
It is not in all cases easy to trace the origin and true nature of the ascidium, as the venation is sometimes obscure.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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 Vries, Hugo de
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