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Definition of Apiculus

1. a sharp point at the end of a leaf [n -LI]

Medical Definition of Apiculus

1. A short, sharp projection on one end of a fungus spore at the point of attachment, or on the wall, of a hypha or condiophore. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apiculus

Literary usage of Apiculus

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

1. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1825)
"When the theca is moist, none of the columella is visible, except the apiculus ; but when dry, the dilated portion becomes exserted from the shrinking of ..."

2. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... apiculus, wrinkled when dry. Receptacle globose, setose. The plant before us belongs to a most difficult group of species or varieties, ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"On the upper surface a strong carina arises near the origin of the joint, .and continues to the tip of the apiculus. The lower side is flattened, ..."

4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1863)
"In size the valves vary greatly, from -0020" to upwards of -0030" in diameter. Between the body of the disc and the apiculus there is the appearance of a ..."

5. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1899)
"which bears only a short stiff apiculus; spikes several-flowered; bracts membranous, dirty brown, the lowest broadly ovate with a median keel ending in a ..."

6. Annales Mycologici (1905)
"... with hyaline apiculus and finely warted Ur. simplex B. ... without hyaline apiculus, thickened at apex and coarsely warted Ur. Robinsoni II. ..."

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