Definition of Exciples

1. exciple [n] - See also: exciple

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exciples

excheator
excheators
excheats
exchequer
exchequers
exchequership
excide
excided
excides
exciding
excimer
excimers
excipient
excipients
exciple
exciples (current term)
exciplex
exciplexes
excipulum
excircle
excircles
excisability
excisable
excise
excise-tax
excise tax
excised
excises

Literary usage of Exciples

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

1. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"But the peculiar line of development of G. dendritica is sufficiently marked ; its dilated exciples now offering rounded conditions, comparable rather with ..."

2. Bulletin by Ohio Biological Survey (1915)
"... and the exciples may be composed of ordinary long-celled, but closely interwoven hyphae (Fig. ..."

3. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1882)
"... dark-greenish-ash-coloured, and, in the exciples, olivaceous; apothecia small, appressed, flattish soon flexuous; the dark-red disk somewhat polished; ..."

4. Outlines of botany by Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1835)
"... in their varied and irregular dehiscence, and the carbonaceous character of their exciples ; although both subtypes agree in having proper ..."

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