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Definition of Peristomes
1. peristome [n] - See also: peristome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peristomes
Literary usage of Peristomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"The other walls of the cells, from which the peristomes are made, are absorbed
before the maturing of the spores and the falling of the operculum. ..."
2. Problems of Genetics by William Bateson (1913)
"Locality C, about 3 kilometres from B. There were found 35 hortensis, of which
20 had light peristomes and 15 brown; together with 7 nemoralis. ..."
3. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1907)
"forming with growth tubular vestibules, separated by compact or horizontally
laminated interspaces; peristomes equally elevated, or highest posteriorly. ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"The mass had two peristomes and two mouths placed as shown in the figure, ...
There were two mouths, two peristomes and two contractile vacuoles. ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"There are two peristomes before the first dichotomy, and generally one between
... The acme is reached with three or four peristomes between the third and ..."
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