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Definition of Exciple
1. n. The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.
Definition of Exciple
1. a rim around the hymenium of various lichens [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exciple
Literary usage of Exciple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"As a general rule, these usually present themselves as plane dises, surrounded
by the margin of the proper exciple, but ofien they become so remarkably ..."
2. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"... or globose, always open, margined by a proper exciple, the disk collapsing into
... the carbonaceous proper exciple margining a compact or powdery disk, ..."
3. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1882)
"... obtusely margined by the exterior exciple, through which the toothed border
of the black proper exciple finally protrudes; disk colourless, ..."
4. A Synopsis of the Lichenes of New England, the Other Northern States, and by Edward Tuckerman (1848)
"... or originally disciform (open); and is itself contained in a receptacle (exciple),
either of the same color with and like the thallus ..."
5. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"271) for exhibitions of the proper exciple, and have probably elsewhere been ...
The inner exciple, or veil, is itself, as has been remarked already, ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... yellow, brown, red, or of the same color as the thallus, though it often blackens.
The proper exciple is either black, as in Lecidea, or colored, ..."
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