Definition of Archicarps

1. archicarp [n] - See also: archicarp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archicarps

archetyping
archeus
archfiend
archfiends
archfoe
archfoes
archform
archi-
archiannelid
archiannelida
archiannelids
archiater
archiblastula
archical
archicarp
archicarps (current term)
archicembalo
archicerebellum
archicortex
archidiaconal
archidiaconate
archiepiscopacies
archiepiscopacy
archiepiscopal
archiepiscopality
archiepiscopate
archiepiscopates
archierey
archigrapheme
archigraphemes

Literary usage of Archicarps

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

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"The number of archicarps developed in the interior of a single ascocarp varies, and when several archicarps lie closely approximated their interweaving ..."

2. Practical Botany for Beginners by Frederick Orpen Bower (1894)
"The perithecia, and 'the archicarps (female organs) which give rise to them, are to be sought for on a mycelium which has already produced mature conidia ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... are uninucleate: so are also the mycelium developed from the sporidium, and the female organs (archicarps) borne upon it- Hence the limits of the ..."

4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"The archicarps and ... and archicarps this is not the case. Further details are given in Part III. in connexion with the plants to which the various organs ..."

5. Investigations representing the departments by University of Chicago, E.F. Young, John Dewey (1903)
"She has described and figured multinucleate oogonia (archicarps) and antheridia, which are said to ... There are several forms whose archicarps suggest a ..."

6. Investigations Representing the Departments: Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"She has described and figured multinucleate oogonia (archicarps) and antheridia, which are said to ... There are several forms whose archicarps suggest a ..."

7. The evolution of plant life, lower forms by George Massee (1891)
"The archicarps continue to grow for some time, becoming more or less pear- shaped and filled with dense protoplasm. At this stage of development the ..."

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