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gwynhefarI chose to put these behind a cut this time because this list is *very* long. I wanted to see how far I could go just by defining unfamiliar words found in a previous definition. For reference, 'quincunx' was the last word on my actual list - everything after that word was the result of following a trail from definition to definition.
viator(e): (n) 1. A traveller, a wayfarer.
2. In Roman Antiquity: court-officer, apparitor
apparitor: (n) 1. The servant or attendant of an officer or authority. In Roman Antiquity: A general name for the public servants of the Roman magistrates.
2. An officer of a civil court.
3. An officer of an ecclesiastical court.
4. A beadle in an university, who carries the mace before the masters, and the faculties. Also applied to other similar functionaries.
5. A herald, pursuivant, usher.
6. One who appears, an appearer.
pursuivant: (n) 1. Frequently with capital initial. Originally: a junior heraldic officer attendant on a herald or nobleman. In later use: an officer of the English, Scottish, or (formerly) Irish heraldic authority, ranking below a herald; (in Scotland also) a private officer of arms, appointed by an earl.
2. A royal or state messenger, especially one with the power to execute warrants; a warrant officer.
3. Figuratively, and in extended use: a messenger, an agent.
4. A follower; an attendant.
5. One who seeks a woman in marriage; a wooer.
flitch: (n) 1. The side of an animal, now only of a hog, salted and cured; a ‘side’ of bacon.
2. The ‘flitch’ presented yearly at Dunmow, in Essex, to any married couple who could prove that they had lived in conjugal harmony for a year and a day.
3. A square piece of blubber from a whale.
4. A steak cut from a halibut.
5. A slice cut lengthways from the trunk of a tree, usually having the natural surface as one of its sides.
6. In Carpentry: One of several associated planks fastened side by side to form a compound beam, or built-beam.
7. A bolt of planks, united by the stub-shot.
8. Also 'flitch-plate' - a strengthening plate added to a beam, girder, or any woodwork.
9. A flick or stroke.
métisse: (n) A woman of mixed descent, especially one of European and African or American Indian origin.
exegete: (n) 1. An expounder, interpreter.
2. In Greek Antiquity: At Athens, one of those three members of the Eumolpidæ, whose province it was to interpret the religious and ceremonial law, the signs in the heavens, and oracles.
3. One who explains or interprets difficult passages; one skilled in exegesis; an expounder.
panoply: (n) 1. A spiritual or psychological protection or defence; an attitude, etc., affording such protection (Frequently with allusion to Ephesians 6:11, 13).
2. Full armour; a complete suit of armour. Frequently with connotations of brightness and splendour.
3. In extended use: any complete covering or protective layer.
4. A splendid or impressive array; fine or magnificent display; splendour; pomp. Also: splendid attire.
5. A full or extensive array of resources; a wide range or array (of).
6. A group of pieces of armour arranged as a trophy or ornament.
entente: (n) 1. An understanding; most frequently used as a shortening of entente cordiale (A friendly understanding, especially one between two or more political powers or states; specifically with reference to the understanding arrived at between England and France in 1904, and between these two countries and Russia in 1908.).
2. A group of states or powers connected by an entente cordiale.
silage: (n) Green fodder preserved by pressure in a silo or stack; ensilage.
whin: (n) 1. The common furze or gorse, Ulex europæus. Often collective plural and singular for a clump or mass of the shrub, or a quantity of it used for fuel, fencing, etc.
2. Applied to other prickly or thorny shrubs, as rest-harrow and buckthorn; also to heather.
3. With distinctive additions, in local names of various prickly shrubs.
frænulum: (n) 1. A small frænum; a frænum.
2. In Entomology: A bristle or group of bristles attached to the base of the hind wing in many Lepidoptera, and interlocking with a process on the front wing, thus uniting the two wings of a side in flight.
frænum: (n) 1. A small ligament or membranous fold which bridles or restrains the motion of the organ to which it is attached; e.g. that of the tongue.
2. In pedunculated cirripedes: two minute folds of skin, which serve, through the means of a sticky secretion, to retain the eggs until they are hatched.
peduculate: (adj) In Botany and Zoology: Having a peduncle or peduncles; borne on a peduncle; stalked.
cirripede: (n) In Zoology: A member of the Cirripedia or Cirripeda, a class of marine animals of the Sub-kingdom Annulosa, closely related to the Crustacea, but in the adult state much less developed; enclosed in a shell consisting of many valves which is cemented, sessile or attached by a flexible stalk, to other bodies. They include the barnacles and acorn-shells. The name refers to the appearance of the legs, which can be protruded like a curled lock of hair from between the valves.
quincunx: (n) 1. A pattern used for planting trees in which they are arranged in one or more groups of five, so placed that four occupy the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth occupies its centre; a group or plantation of trees laid out in this manner.
2. In extended use: an arrangement of five objects in this pattern; a set of five so arranged.
3. In Botany: A quincuncial arrangement of leaves or perianth segments.
4. In Astrology and Astronomy: The aspect of two planets which are at an angular distance of five-twelfths of a circle (150 degrees) apart in the sky.
5. In Church History: A reliquary having a folding construction on a quincuncial pattern.
perianth: (n) 1. In Botany: A structure surrounding or forming the outer part of a flower.
2. A part of a flower outside the corolla; a calyx. Also: an involucre, especially of a plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae).
3. The floral whorl or whorls outside the stamens; the calyx and corolla collectively, especially when their parts are not easily distinguishable.
4. In a foliose liverwort: the fused uppermost perichaetial bracts surrounding the calyptra.
involucre: (n) 1. That which envelops or enwraps; a case, covering, envelope; specifically in Anatomy: a membranous envelope, as the pericardium.
2. In Botany: A whorl or rosette of bracts surrounding an inflorescence, or at the base of an umbel.
3. In Zoology: A kind of sheath about the base of the thread-cells of acalephs.
perichaetial: (adj) Of, belonging to, or constituting a perichaetium (A cluster of modified leaves surrounding the archegonium of a moss. Also: the perianth of a foliose liverwort)
calyptra: (n) 1. In Botany: A hood or cover; specifically the hood of the sporecase in mosses or the interior membranaceous and often hairy covering of the ovarium (ovary).
2. A thickened membrane of parenchymatous cells which protects the growing root of a vascular plant; a root-cap.
acaleph: (n) An animal of the class Acalepha, a class of Radiate marine animals, embracing the Jelly fishes and Medusas, of pellucid gelatinous substance; so called from possessing the power of stinging or tingling anything which they touch, whence some of them are also known as sea-nettles.
archegonium: (n) In Botany: The female organ in Cryptogams, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
parenchymatous: (adj) 1. In Anatomy and Zoology: Consisting of or of the nature of parenchyma; of or relating to parenchyma; parenchymal.
2. In Medicine: Affecting the parenchyma of an organ.
3. In Zoology: Designating flatworms whose bodies are composed of solid parenchyma with no visceral cavity.
4. In Botany: Consisting of or having the nature of parenchyma; of or belonging to parenchyma.
cryptogam: (n) A plant of the class Cryptogamia, a large division of the vegetable kingdom, being the last class in the Linnæan Sexual system, and comprising those plants which have no stamens or pistils, and therefore no proper flowers; including Ferns, Mosses, Algæ, Lichens, and Fungi.
parenchyma: (n) 1. In Anatomy and Zoology: The specialized tissue of an organ, as distinguished from its connective tissue or stroma; an instance of this.
2. Cellular tissue composing the main bulk of the body in various acoelomate invertebrates, esp. flatworms. Also: the cytoplasm of a single-celled organism.
3. In Botany: The fundamental or ground tissue of plants, typically consisting of living, thin-walled, often polyhedral cells, as in the pulp of fruits, the softer parts of leaves, the pith of stems, etc.; an instance of this.
stroma: (n) 1. In Anatomy: The fibrous connective sustentacular tissue or substance of a part or organ. Also the framework containing the alveoli of cancer-cells.
2. The spongy colourless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
3. In Botany: A structure containing the substance in which perithecia or other organs of fructification are immersed.
4. In vegetable physiology, the solid matter remaining after all the fluid has been expressed from protoplasm.
5. The colourless fluid surrounding the grana inside a chloroplast.
acoelomate: (adj) Having no coelome or body-cavity; not coelomate.
sustentacular: (adj) Pertaining to or of the nature of a sustentaculum; supporting.
alveolus: (n) 1. A small cavity; hence the socket of a tooth, the cell of a honeycomb, the conical chamber of a Belemnite, or the conical body found in it.
2. A small depression on the mucous membrane of the stomach.
3. An air-cell of the lungs.
4. An acinus of a compound gland.
perithecium: (n) A flask-shaped or rounded ascocarp with an ostiole, found especially among pyrenomycetes.
fructification: (n) The action or process of fructifying or producing fruit. Also fecundation, fertilization.
2. In Botany: The fruit of a plant; or collectively, the organs of fruiting or reproduction, especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses.
granum: (n) Any of the discs which are arranged in stacks in the chloroplast, which are formed of membranes and in which the chlorophyll is incorporated.
coelome: (n) The body-cavity of a coelomate animal.
coelomate: (adj) Having a coelome or body-cavity distinct from the intestinal cavity; belonging to the Coelomata.
sustentaculum: (n) 1. In Anatomy: A sustaining or supporting part or organ.
2. In Zoology: A strong, moveable spine inserted near the termination of the tarsus of each posterior leg, on the under side, in spiders belonging to the genus Epeira.
belemnite: (n) 1. A fossil common in rocks of the Secondary formation; a straight, smooth, cylindrical object, a few inches long, convexly tapering to a sharp point, formerly known, from its shape and supposed origin, as thunder-bolt, thunder-stone, elf-bolt, but now recognized as the internal bone of an animal allied to the cuttle-fish.
2. The extinct animal to which this belonged.
acinus: (n) 1. A berry which grows in clusters, as grapes, currants, etc.; sometimes applied to the whole cluster.
2. In Botany: One of the small fleshy berries or drupes which make up such compound fruits as the blackberry; sometimes applied to the compound fruit which they compose.
3. The stones or seeds of grapes and berries.
4. In Anatomy: A racemose gland; a blind end of a duct of a secreting gland, which is divided into several lobes.
ascocarp: (n) the fruit body of an ascomycetous fungus.
ostiole: (n) 1. A small opening or orifice.
2. In Mycology and Botany: The external orifice or pore of a perithecium, pycnium, or other spore- or gamete-containing structure in various fungi, algae, and lichens; (also) an opening in certain other plant organs, especially the syconium of the fig.
3. In Entomology: The orifice of the thoracic stink gland in heteropteran bugs.
pyrenomycetes: (n) 1. With singular concord: a former class of fungi (now called Sordariomycetes), constituting a subgroup of the Ascomycota characterized by having the asci enclosed in flask-shaped fruiting bodies (perithecia). With plural concord (also pyrenomycetes): members of this class collectively.
Coelomata: (n) The name given by Ray Lankester to the higher of his two subdivisions of Enterozoa (= Metazoa), including all of these that have a coelome or body-cavity, distinct from the enteric or intestinal cavity (the other subdivision being that of the COELENTERATA). It comprises all the more highly developed animals, including Vermes.
ascomycetous: (adj) of or belonging to the Ascomycetes, or fungi, such as the yeast-plant and truffles, in which spores are formed asexually in the interior of asci.
pycnium: (n) In Mycology: In rust fungi: a flask-shaped fruiting body producing haploid spores and receptive hyphae, which after fertilization results in the formation of an aecium; a spermogonium.
syconium: (n) In Botany: A multiple fruit developed from numerous flowers imbedded in a fleshy receptacle, as in the fig.
heteropteran: (adj) belonging to or having the characters of the Heteroptera.
ascus: (n) A membranous tubular cell, esp. the swollen sac-like cell at the end of the branches of the hyphæ in certain fungi and lichens, in which the reproductive sporules or sporidia develop.
enteric: (adj) Of or pertaining to the intestines.
Vermes: (n) One or other of the primary divisions, sub-kingdoms, or groups of the animal kingdom proposed or adopted at various times by certain classifiers, comprehending worms and allied forms, but differing widely as to the nature and number of the classes or families included.
hypha: (n) The structural element of the thallome of Fungi, consisting of long slender branched filaments, usually having transverse septa, and together constituting the mycelium.
aecium: (n) In Botany: U.S. term for æcidium, the cup-shaped fruit borne on the mycelium of certain parasitic fungi which especially attack the families Compositæ, Ranunculaceæ, Leguminosæ, and Labiatæ.
spermogonium: (n) 1. In Botany: One of the receptacles in lichens and fungi in which the spermatia are produced.
2. In Physiology: A sperm-cell.
Heteroptera: (n) A suborder of HEMIPTERA, comprising those insects whose wings consist of dissimilar parts, being coriaceous at the base and membranous at the tip; the true bugs. Opposed to HOMOPTERA.
thallome: (n) same as thallus: A vegetable structure without vascular tissue, in which there is no differentiation into stem and leaves, and from which true roots are absent.
mycelium: (n) The vegetative tissue (thallus) of a fungus, typically consisting of a network of fine filaments (hyphae); an instance of this.
coriaceous: (adj) 1. Resembling leather in texture, appearance, etc.; leathery. Chiefly used in Natural History.
2. Made of leather, leathern.
viator(e): (n) 1. A traveller, a wayfarer.
2. In Roman Antiquity: court-officer, apparitor
apparitor: (n) 1. The servant or attendant of an officer or authority. In Roman Antiquity: A general name for the public servants of the Roman magistrates.
2. An officer of a civil court.
3. An officer of an ecclesiastical court.
4. A beadle in an university, who carries the mace before the masters, and the faculties. Also applied to other similar functionaries.
5. A herald, pursuivant, usher.
6. One who appears, an appearer.
pursuivant: (n) 1. Frequently with capital initial. Originally: a junior heraldic officer attendant on a herald or nobleman. In later use: an officer of the English, Scottish, or (formerly) Irish heraldic authority, ranking below a herald; (in Scotland also) a private officer of arms, appointed by an earl.
2. A royal or state messenger, especially one with the power to execute warrants; a warrant officer.
3. Figuratively, and in extended use: a messenger, an agent.
4. A follower; an attendant.
5. One who seeks a woman in marriage; a wooer.
flitch: (n) 1. The side of an animal, now only of a hog, salted and cured; a ‘side’ of bacon.
2. The ‘flitch’ presented yearly at Dunmow, in Essex, to any married couple who could prove that they had lived in conjugal harmony for a year and a day.
3. A square piece of blubber from a whale.
4. A steak cut from a halibut.
5. A slice cut lengthways from the trunk of a tree, usually having the natural surface as one of its sides.
6. In Carpentry: One of several associated planks fastened side by side to form a compound beam, or built-beam.
7. A bolt of planks, united by the stub-shot.
8. Also 'flitch-plate' - a strengthening plate added to a beam, girder, or any woodwork.
9. A flick or stroke.
métisse: (n) A woman of mixed descent, especially one of European and African or American Indian origin.
exegete: (n) 1. An expounder, interpreter.
2. In Greek Antiquity: At Athens, one of those three members of the Eumolpidæ, whose province it was to interpret the religious and ceremonial law, the signs in the heavens, and oracles.
3. One who explains or interprets difficult passages; one skilled in exegesis; an expounder.
panoply: (n) 1. A spiritual or psychological protection or defence; an attitude, etc., affording such protection (Frequently with allusion to Ephesians 6:11, 13).
2. Full armour; a complete suit of armour. Frequently with connotations of brightness and splendour.
3. In extended use: any complete covering or protective layer.
4. A splendid or impressive array; fine or magnificent display; splendour; pomp. Also: splendid attire.
5. A full or extensive array of resources; a wide range or array (of).
6. A group of pieces of armour arranged as a trophy or ornament.
entente: (n) 1. An understanding; most frequently used as a shortening of entente cordiale (A friendly understanding, especially one between two or more political powers or states; specifically with reference to the understanding arrived at between England and France in 1904, and between these two countries and Russia in 1908.).
2. A group of states or powers connected by an entente cordiale.
silage: (n) Green fodder preserved by pressure in a silo or stack; ensilage.
whin: (n) 1. The common furze or gorse, Ulex europæus. Often collective plural and singular for a clump or mass of the shrub, or a quantity of it used for fuel, fencing, etc.
2. Applied to other prickly or thorny shrubs, as rest-harrow and buckthorn; also to heather.
3. With distinctive additions, in local names of various prickly shrubs.
frænulum: (n) 1. A small frænum; a frænum.
2. In Entomology: A bristle or group of bristles attached to the base of the hind wing in many Lepidoptera, and interlocking with a process on the front wing, thus uniting the two wings of a side in flight.
frænum: (n) 1. A small ligament or membranous fold which bridles or restrains the motion of the organ to which it is attached; e.g. that of the tongue.
2. In pedunculated cirripedes: two minute folds of skin, which serve, through the means of a sticky secretion, to retain the eggs until they are hatched.
peduculate: (adj) In Botany and Zoology: Having a peduncle or peduncles; borne on a peduncle; stalked.
cirripede: (n) In Zoology: A member of the Cirripedia or Cirripeda, a class of marine animals of the Sub-kingdom Annulosa, closely related to the Crustacea, but in the adult state much less developed; enclosed in a shell consisting of many valves which is cemented, sessile or attached by a flexible stalk, to other bodies. They include the barnacles and acorn-shells. The name refers to the appearance of the legs, which can be protruded like a curled lock of hair from between the valves.
quincunx: (n) 1. A pattern used for planting trees in which they are arranged in one or more groups of five, so placed that four occupy the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth occupies its centre; a group or plantation of trees laid out in this manner.
2. In extended use: an arrangement of five objects in this pattern; a set of five so arranged.
3. In Botany: A quincuncial arrangement of leaves or perianth segments.
4. In Astrology and Astronomy: The aspect of two planets which are at an angular distance of five-twelfths of a circle (150 degrees) apart in the sky.
5. In Church History: A reliquary having a folding construction on a quincuncial pattern.
perianth: (n) 1. In Botany: A structure surrounding or forming the outer part of a flower.
2. A part of a flower outside the corolla; a calyx. Also: an involucre, especially of a plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae).
3. The floral whorl or whorls outside the stamens; the calyx and corolla collectively, especially when their parts are not easily distinguishable.
4. In a foliose liverwort: the fused uppermost perichaetial bracts surrounding the calyptra.
involucre: (n) 1. That which envelops or enwraps; a case, covering, envelope; specifically in Anatomy: a membranous envelope, as the pericardium.
2. In Botany: A whorl or rosette of bracts surrounding an inflorescence, or at the base of an umbel.
3. In Zoology: A kind of sheath about the base of the thread-cells of acalephs.
perichaetial: (adj) Of, belonging to, or constituting a perichaetium (A cluster of modified leaves surrounding the archegonium of a moss. Also: the perianth of a foliose liverwort)
calyptra: (n) 1. In Botany: A hood or cover; specifically the hood of the sporecase in mosses or the interior membranaceous and often hairy covering of the ovarium (ovary).
2. A thickened membrane of parenchymatous cells which protects the growing root of a vascular plant; a root-cap.
acaleph: (n) An animal of the class Acalepha, a class of Radiate marine animals, embracing the Jelly fishes and Medusas, of pellucid gelatinous substance; so called from possessing the power of stinging or tingling anything which they touch, whence some of them are also known as sea-nettles.
archegonium: (n) In Botany: The female organ in Cryptogams, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
parenchymatous: (adj) 1. In Anatomy and Zoology: Consisting of or of the nature of parenchyma; of or relating to parenchyma; parenchymal.
2. In Medicine: Affecting the parenchyma of an organ.
3. In Zoology: Designating flatworms whose bodies are composed of solid parenchyma with no visceral cavity.
4. In Botany: Consisting of or having the nature of parenchyma; of or belonging to parenchyma.
cryptogam: (n) A plant of the class Cryptogamia, a large division of the vegetable kingdom, being the last class in the Linnæan Sexual system, and comprising those plants which have no stamens or pistils, and therefore no proper flowers; including Ferns, Mosses, Algæ, Lichens, and Fungi.
parenchyma: (n) 1. In Anatomy and Zoology: The specialized tissue of an organ, as distinguished from its connective tissue or stroma; an instance of this.
2. Cellular tissue composing the main bulk of the body in various acoelomate invertebrates, esp. flatworms. Also: the cytoplasm of a single-celled organism.
3. In Botany: The fundamental or ground tissue of plants, typically consisting of living, thin-walled, often polyhedral cells, as in the pulp of fruits, the softer parts of leaves, the pith of stems, etc.; an instance of this.
stroma: (n) 1. In Anatomy: The fibrous connective sustentacular tissue or substance of a part or organ. Also the framework containing the alveoli of cancer-cells.
2. The spongy colourless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.
3. In Botany: A structure containing the substance in which perithecia or other organs of fructification are immersed.
4. In vegetable physiology, the solid matter remaining after all the fluid has been expressed from protoplasm.
5. The colourless fluid surrounding the grana inside a chloroplast.
acoelomate: (adj) Having no coelome or body-cavity; not coelomate.
sustentacular: (adj) Pertaining to or of the nature of a sustentaculum; supporting.
alveolus: (n) 1. A small cavity; hence the socket of a tooth, the cell of a honeycomb, the conical chamber of a Belemnite, or the conical body found in it.
2. A small depression on the mucous membrane of the stomach.
3. An air-cell of the lungs.
4. An acinus of a compound gland.
perithecium: (n) A flask-shaped or rounded ascocarp with an ostiole, found especially among pyrenomycetes.
fructification: (n) The action or process of fructifying or producing fruit. Also fecundation, fertilization.
2. In Botany: The fruit of a plant; or collectively, the organs of fruiting or reproduction, especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses.
granum: (n) Any of the discs which are arranged in stacks in the chloroplast, which are formed of membranes and in which the chlorophyll is incorporated.
coelome: (n) The body-cavity of a coelomate animal.
coelomate: (adj) Having a coelome or body-cavity distinct from the intestinal cavity; belonging to the Coelomata.
sustentaculum: (n) 1. In Anatomy: A sustaining or supporting part or organ.
2. In Zoology: A strong, moveable spine inserted near the termination of the tarsus of each posterior leg, on the under side, in spiders belonging to the genus Epeira.
belemnite: (n) 1. A fossil common in rocks of the Secondary formation; a straight, smooth, cylindrical object, a few inches long, convexly tapering to a sharp point, formerly known, from its shape and supposed origin, as thunder-bolt, thunder-stone, elf-bolt, but now recognized as the internal bone of an animal allied to the cuttle-fish.
2. The extinct animal to which this belonged.
acinus: (n) 1. A berry which grows in clusters, as grapes, currants, etc.; sometimes applied to the whole cluster.
2. In Botany: One of the small fleshy berries or drupes which make up such compound fruits as the blackberry; sometimes applied to the compound fruit which they compose.
3. The stones or seeds of grapes and berries.
4. In Anatomy: A racemose gland; a blind end of a duct of a secreting gland, which is divided into several lobes.
ascocarp: (n) the fruit body of an ascomycetous fungus.
ostiole: (n) 1. A small opening or orifice.
2. In Mycology and Botany: The external orifice or pore of a perithecium, pycnium, or other spore- or gamete-containing structure in various fungi, algae, and lichens; (also) an opening in certain other plant organs, especially the syconium of the fig.
3. In Entomology: The orifice of the thoracic stink gland in heteropteran bugs.
pyrenomycetes: (n) 1. With singular concord: a former class of fungi (now called Sordariomycetes), constituting a subgroup of the Ascomycota characterized by having the asci enclosed in flask-shaped fruiting bodies (perithecia). With plural concord (also pyrenomycetes): members of this class collectively.
Coelomata: (n) The name given by Ray Lankester to the higher of his two subdivisions of Enterozoa (= Metazoa), including all of these that have a coelome or body-cavity, distinct from the enteric or intestinal cavity (the other subdivision being that of the COELENTERATA). It comprises all the more highly developed animals, including Vermes.
ascomycetous: (adj) of or belonging to the Ascomycetes, or fungi, such as the yeast-plant and truffles, in which spores are formed asexually in the interior of asci.
pycnium: (n) In Mycology: In rust fungi: a flask-shaped fruiting body producing haploid spores and receptive hyphae, which after fertilization results in the formation of an aecium; a spermogonium.
syconium: (n) In Botany: A multiple fruit developed from numerous flowers imbedded in a fleshy receptacle, as in the fig.
heteropteran: (adj) belonging to or having the characters of the Heteroptera.
ascus: (n) A membranous tubular cell, esp. the swollen sac-like cell at the end of the branches of the hyphæ in certain fungi and lichens, in which the reproductive sporules or sporidia develop.
enteric: (adj) Of or pertaining to the intestines.
Vermes: (n) One or other of the primary divisions, sub-kingdoms, or groups of the animal kingdom proposed or adopted at various times by certain classifiers, comprehending worms and allied forms, but differing widely as to the nature and number of the classes or families included.
hypha: (n) The structural element of the thallome of Fungi, consisting of long slender branched filaments, usually having transverse septa, and together constituting the mycelium.
aecium: (n) In Botany: U.S. term for æcidium, the cup-shaped fruit borne on the mycelium of certain parasitic fungi which especially attack the families Compositæ, Ranunculaceæ, Leguminosæ, and Labiatæ.
spermogonium: (n) 1. In Botany: One of the receptacles in lichens and fungi in which the spermatia are produced.
2. In Physiology: A sperm-cell.
Heteroptera: (n) A suborder of HEMIPTERA, comprising those insects whose wings consist of dissimilar parts, being coriaceous at the base and membranous at the tip; the true bugs. Opposed to HOMOPTERA.
thallome: (n) same as thallus: A vegetable structure without vascular tissue, in which there is no differentiation into stem and leaves, and from which true roots are absent.
mycelium: (n) The vegetative tissue (thallus) of a fungus, typically consisting of a network of fine filaments (hyphae); an instance of this.
coriaceous: (adj) 1. Resembling leather in texture, appearance, etc.; leathery. Chiefly used in Natural History.
2. Made of leather, leathern.
