Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to the fossil spore-cases of desmidean Algæ and also to the statoblasts of Polyzoa: found in rocks of various ages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of minute unicellular algæ of the desmids. These algæ have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.
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Admittedly, making “X” part of the word, “eXtreme” makes a certain amount of sense here, but a part of me still years for a xanthidium explanation.
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Admittedly, making “X” part of the word, “eXtreme” makes a certain amount of sense here, but a part of me still years for a xanthidium explanation.
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