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Definition of Placentas
1. placenta [n] - See also: placenta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Placentas
Literary usage of Placentas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In these cases the marginal placentas meet in the axis, and unite so as to form
a single central one (figs. 257, 258), and the ovules appear in the central ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This is seen in cases where the margins of the carpel do not unite, but remain
separate, and consequently two placentas are formed in place of one. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This is seen in cases where the margins of the carpel do not unite, but remain
separate, and consequently two placentas are formed in place of one. ..."
4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Capsule 3-valved, valves separating from a framework that bears the placentas.
Seeds innumerable, very minute, fusiform, testa very lax reticulate, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"Two continuous placentas.—M. Koci saw at Milan two placenta, continuous one with
the other. They were met with in a case of twins. ..."
6. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"But if the edges be separate, there will necessarily be two placentas to each
carpel, the one to the right and the other to the left of the dorsal suture ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In these cases the marginal placentas meet in the axis, and unite so as to form
a single central one (figs. 257, 258), and the ovules appear in the central ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This is seen in cases where the margins of the carpel do not unite, but remain
separate, and consequently two placentas are formed in place of one. ..."
9. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This is seen in cases where the margins of the carpel do not unite, but remain
separate, and consequently two placentas are formed in place of one. ..."
10. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Capsule 3-valved, valves separating from a framework that bears the placentas.
Seeds innumerable, very minute, fusiform, testa very lax reticulate, ..."
11. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"Two continuous placentas.—M. Koci saw at Milan two placenta, continuous one with
the other. They were met with in a case of twins. ..."
12. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"But if the edges be separate, there will necessarily be two placentas to each
carpel, the one to the right and the other to the left of the dorsal suture ..."
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