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Webster 1913 Edition
Ascidium
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1.
(Bot.)
A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).
2.
pl.
(Zool.)
A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.
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English
Noun
ascidium (plural ascidia)
- (botany) A pitcher-shaped or flask-shaped organ or appendage of a plant.
- (zoology) One of the former genus Ascidium of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species; sometimes used as a name for the Ascidiidae or for all the Tunicata, or Ascidiacea.