Definition of Ascidia

1. ascidium [n] - See also: ascidium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascidia

ascetic
ascetical
ascetically
asceticism
asceticisms
ascetick
ascetics
ascham
aschamalmite
aschams
aschelminth
aschematic
asci
ascian
ascians
ascidia (current term)
ascidian
ascidian tadpole
ascidians
ascidiaria
ascidiarium
ascidiate
ascidiform
ascidioidea
ascidiozooid
ascidiozooids
ascidium
ascience
ascient
ascigerous

Literary usage of Ascidia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zoölogical Bulletin (1898)
"Roule has described a similar condition in ascidia Marioni. ... I have recently found somewhat similar relations in ascidia atra, from Jamaica, ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"Note on the Crustacea which live parasitically in ascidia in the Mediterranean. ... The Crustacea living as parasites in the ascidia have been very ..."

3. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"(ascidia.) Sea-squirts are familiar objects on rocky sea-shores, where they occur, often in large ... ascidia, entire animal seen from the right side. ..."

4. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"Rheinl. und Westphal.,' 1860, p. 332, tabs. 6 et 7. Formation of ascidia or pitchers.—In the preceding paragraphs, the formation ..."

5. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"Formation of ascidia or pitchers.—In the preceding paragraphs, the formation of tubular or horn-like structures, from the union of the margins of one organ, ..."

6. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"ascidia, STIPULES, AND BRACTS. 244. ... But the most remarkable of all leaves are those which are hollowed out into the form of pitchers, called ascidia. ..."

7. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"ascidiaN (ascidia affinis), Dissected to show the chief features in the ... In the genus ascidia these bundles are more or less irregularly arranged, ..."

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