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Webster 1913 Edition

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(? or [GREEK])

Noun.

;

pl.

Nemathecia

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[NL., fr. Gr.

νῆμα

a thread + [GREEK] a box.]

(Bot.)

A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.

nemathecium ‎(plural nemathecia)

(botany) A kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments that separate into tetraspores.