Definition of Indusium

1. Noun. A membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern.

Generic synonyms: Cover, Covering, Natural Covering
Group relationships: Sorus

Definition of Indusium

1. n. A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.

Definition of Indusium

1. Noun. A protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Indusium

1. an enclosing membrane [n -SIA] : INDUSIAL [adj]

Medical Definition of Indusium

1. Tissue covering the sorus of a fern. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indusium

indurances
indurate
indurated
indurated clay
indurates
indurating
induration
induration of the arteries
indurations
indurative
indure
indusia
indusial
indusiate
indusiated
indusium (current term)
indusium griseum
industrial
industrial-output
industrial-strength
industrial action
industrial actions
industrial air pollution
industrial arts
industrial bank
industrial deafness
industrial design
industrial diamond
industrial diamonds
industrial disease

Literary usage of Indusium

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

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"indusium present cc indusium formed entirely or in part by the revolute edge of ... indusium peltate or laterally attached, covering the sorus when young /. ..."

2. Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the by George Bentham (1861)
"Spore-cases (helmet-shaped, with a vertical or oblique ring, and usually pedicellate) very small and numerous, in sori with or without an indusium or ..."

3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The term indusium has been applied to bodies of the most various form, ... It may be possible, by regarding the indusium as having had a high degree of ..."

4. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"indusium the same shape as the frond, formed of its reflexed margin. ... indusium shaped like the sorus, membranous, formed of the frond. ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Sori either with or without a membranous covering (indusium). ... indusium wholly or partially inferior. indusium wholly inferior, the divisions stellate or ..."

6. The Microscopist: A Compendium of Microscopic Science Including the Use of by Joseph Henry Wythe (1883)
"indusium suborbicular, fixed by a lateral inferior point. Gen. 14. ... indusium lunate, attached on a short horizontal veinlet. Tribe 10. Asp'diece. ..."

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