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Webster 1913 Edition


Ascidium

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As-cid′i-um

(ăs-sĭd′ĭ-ŭm)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Ascidia
(-ȧ)
.
[NL., fr.
ascus
. See
Ascus
.]
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.