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Definition of Frustules
1. frustule [n] - See also: frustule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frustules
Literary usage of Frustules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... consists.it will be remembered, of those in which the frustules ... The frustules
in this genus are frequently invested by a membranous envelope which ..."
2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"Hoops often very broad, to adapt themselves to the breadth of the new frustules.
In some species a narrow projecting ridge or keel encircles the valves near ..."
3. Lens by State Microscopical Society of Illinois (1872)
"frustules not as above 14 Valves finely striate, punctate, or more or less hyaline;
never costate; median line wanting or obscure; frustules narrow in fv, ..."
4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"[MJ В.] are often so regular that the frustules form admirable tests for ascertaining
the cum punitive merit of microscopes. ..."
5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1870)
"The extension of the tube takes place after the following manner. As the frustules
increase by the process of subdivision common to all of the ..."
6. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"The frustules seen in girdle view are wedge- shaped, with straight sides and with
... frustules somewhat arched or lens-shaped; in valve view, elliptical or ..."
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