Definitions
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- Relating or pertaining to an archegonium.
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- adjective Relating to the archegonium.
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- adjective Relating to the
archegonium .
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- adjective of or relating to an archegonium
Etymologies
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Examples
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The upper portion of the archegonial wall is carried up as a calyptra on the sporogonium, which, as in _Sphagnum_, has no seta and is raised on a pseudopodium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The leaves below the archegonial group are frequently modified in size and shape, but the chief protection is afforded by a tubular perianth, which corresponds to a coherent whorl of leaves and grows up independently of fertilization.
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It remains for long enclosed within the calyptra formed by the further development of the archegonial wall and surmounted by the neck of the archegonium.
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The archegonial groups in _Corsinia_ are sunk in a depression of the upper surface, while in _Targionia_ they are displaced to the lower side of the anterior end of a branch.
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The same holds even more obviously for the grouping of the stegocarpous forms into those in which the archegonial group terminates
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Further stages of the development of the sporogonium (f) enclosed in the calyptra formed from the archegonial wall (c) and still bearing the neck (h).
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The very large, thin-walled spores escape on the decay of the capsule, which ruptures the archegonial wall irregularly.
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_G_, archegonial branch of common liverwort, natural size.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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A. Longitudinal section of the very young sporogonium (f, f ') enclosed in the archegonial wall (b, h).
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The archegonial groups occupy the apices of short branches (fig. 13, A.).
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