Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, without apothecia: applied to lichens, or lichenoid growths, the fructification of which is unknown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.
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- adjective botany, rare Not furnished with
shields orbeds for thespores , like thethallus of certainlichens .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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