Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: The variously constituted intricate filamentous structure which together with the spores fills the spore-case of many of the lower fungi, especially the Myxomycetes.
- noun The thready or hair-like filaments developed within the spore-capsules or sporangia of certain Mycetozoa.
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Examples
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_F_, a thread (capillitium) and spores of _Trichia_, × 50.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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"Fronte capillitium gerit, ast glabrum occiput illi."
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Inside the peridium, spores are connected to the capillitium, a tiny, thread-like network that runs throughout the peridium
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Order: Trichiales spores and capillitium clearly visible (see reproduction section)
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Inside the peridium, spores are connected to the capillitium, a tiny, thread-like network the runs throughout the peridium
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Inside the peridium, spores are connected to the capillitium, a tiny, thread-like network the runs throughout the peridium
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Inside the peridium, spores are connected to the capillitium, a tiny, thread-like network the runs throughout the peridium
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Inside the peridium, spores are connected to the capillitium, a tiny, thread-like network the runs throughout the peridium
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V. v.11 (523,3) fell of hair] My hairy part, my _capillitium_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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