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Definition of Receptacles
1. receptacle [n] - See also: receptacle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Receptacles
Literary usage of Receptacles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"As regards the occurrence of the secretory receptacles in the different parts of
one and the same species, we may note at this point that in most cases the ..."
2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"On hark of trees. tartans, crust sub-membranaceous, cracked, afterwards granulated,
becoming green-cinereous with dark limits: receptacles small, crowded, ..."
3. An Introduction to Botany by John Lindley (1832)
"Of receptacles of Secretion. But it frequently occurs that the simple intercellular
passages ... Although the receptacles of secretion have no proper coat, ..."
4. An introduction to botany by John Lindley (1832)
"Of receptacles of Secretion. But it frequently occurs that the simple intercellular
passages ... Although the receptacles of secretion have no proper coat, ..."
5. The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Enacted December by Massachusetts, William Adams Richardson, George P. Sanger, Andrew Augustus Richmond (1873)
"OF COUNTY receptacles FOR INSANE PERSONS. 1. County receptacles for insane persons,
&c.t to be provided, &c. 1 Special provisions for the county of ..."
6. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Readily recognized by its large long-peduncled receptacles. ... never cordate
3-nerved, receptacles peduncled in axillary pairs ovoid or oblong prominently ..."
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