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Definition of Frustule
1. n. The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
Definition of Frustule
1. Noun. (botany) The siliceous shell of a diatom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frustule
1. the shell of a diatom [n -S]
Medical Definition of Frustule
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Frustule
Literary usage of Frustule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1888)
"The result, therefore, of multiplication by division is not that each of the
succeeding pair of frustules is smaller than the frustule from which it ..."
2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"Denticula obtusa, b, front view ; c, side view of single frustule ; d, front view
of the same. 26. Diatoma vulgäre, connected frustules. ..."
3. A Synopsis of the British Diatomaceæ: With Remarks on Their Structure by William Smith, Tuffen West (1853)
"I now proceed to describe the living frustule, some of the appearances presented
by which can only be understood by a previous acquaintance with the ..."
4. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1875)
"In the fourth photograph (marked E) the same frustule is shown standing ...
On both sides of the frustule, but especially on the right side—the left being ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"When tested in this way, what was commonly called a simple frustule was found to be
... The real form of the frustule is not a spheroid, as they must have ..."
6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1858)
"When tested in this way, what was commonly called a simple frustule was found to be
... The real form of the frustule is not a spheroid, as they must have ..."
7. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
":—a, side view of frustule; b, frustule undergoing self-division. ... side views
of single frustule; bb front and end views of divided frustule: c. frustule ..."
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