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Definition of Ascidium
1. n. A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).
Definition of Ascidium
1. Noun. (botany) A pitcher-shaped or flask-shaped organ or appendage of a plant. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) One of a genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species; sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ascidium
1. a flask-shaped plant appendage [n -DIA]
Medical Definition of Ascidium
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Origin: NL, fr. Ascus. See Ascus.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascidium
Literary usage of Ascidium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1851)
"... recognising their resemblence to the bivalves, called animal of the latter "
a tethys." Afterwards he adopted Easter's name ascidium,: used Tethys for a ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"Furthermore, the outer surface (the dorsal surface of the leaf)of the ascidium
is provided with a hypodermis, which is interrupted here and there by ..."
3. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1882)
"N. Gran. p. 50, note. On bark, Texas, Hall. An ascidium, like the last species;
from which it more especially differs in the spores. ..."
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