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Definition of Sphaerocarpus

1. Noun. Type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae; liverworts with small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphaerocarpus

Literary usage of Sphaerocarpus

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

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"There is a complete Thallus or Frons of a texture entirely similar to that of sphaerocarpus for instance [a rough sketch is inserted here] forming a kind of ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In Loranthus sphaerocarpus a free central place::: rises up at the base of ... If we compare it with that found in Loranthus sphaerocarpus we can have rc ..."

3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1849)
"By GEORGE FITT, Esq. BEING at Gately, five miles from hence, on Monday last, I examined a turnip-field which looked a likely place for sphaerocarpus ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Enough was seen, however, to show that in a general way both archegonia and antheridia are similar to those of sphaerocarpus. The archegonium (fig. ..."

5. Plant Genetics by John Merle Coulter, Merle Crowe Coulter (1918)
"sphaerocarpus, therefore, gave STRASBURGER an opportunity to determine this ... What these facts established for sphaerocarpus has been taken for granted ..."

6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"Spores firmly united in fours into a sort of coccus which is deeply 4-lobed, and very beautiful under the lens,—more deeply lobed than in sphaerocarpus ..."

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