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Definition of Suspensor
1. Noun. A support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise.
Generic synonyms: Man's Clothing, Protective Garment
Definition of Suspensor
1. n. A suspensory.
Definition of Suspensor
1. Noun. (American English) An athletic support; a jockstrap ¹
2. Noun. The cord which suspends the embryo, and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suspensor
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suspensor
Literary usage of Suspensor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"When the suspensor is developed there is in consequence of it a polar differentiation,
and the end of the embryo which is turned away from the suspensor is ..."
2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"While the suspensor is thus recognised as biologically important, it may, ... I.
=where a suspensor is formed, which is cut off by the f1rst wall, ..."
3. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"galli, in which the massive pro- embryo is elongated and there is no superficial
separation between embryo and suspensor. In case two or more of the first ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"The extension of the suspensor mass beyond the endosperm into the remnant of the
... 8, shows a four-celled embryo and two very short suspensor cells. ..."
5. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"The following are noteworthy peculiarities in the morphology and physiology of
the suspensor. It is generally a filament consisting of a longer or shorter ..."
6. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Scienceedited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"The embryo now consists of four cells—a " suspensor " of two cells separated by
swollen walls, and an embryo proper of two superposed cells, of which each ..."
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