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indusium

[ in-doo-zee-uhm, -zhee-uhm, -dyoo- ]

noun

plural indusia
  1. Botany, Mycology. any of several structures having a netlike or skirtlike shape, as the membranous overgrowth covering the sori in ferns.
  2. Anatomy, Zoology.
    1. an enveloping layer or membrane.
    2. a thin layer of gray matter on the corpus callosum.


indusium

/ ɪ²Ôˈ»åÂá³Ü˳úɪə³¾ /

noun

  1. a membranous outgrowth on the undersurface of fern leaves that covers and protects the developing sporangia
  2. an enveloping membrane, such as the amnion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

indusium

/ Ä­²Ô-»å´ÇÌ…´Ç̅′³úŧ-É™³¾,-³ú³óŧ- /

, Plural indusia

  1. A thin membrane covering the sorus of a fern. The indusium often shrivels away when spores are ready to be dispersed.
  2. Also called fruitcover
  3. A cuplike structure fringed with hairs and located at the top of the style in flowers of the family Goodeniaceae (which includes the garden flowers lobelia and scaevola). Pollen is deposited into the indusium by the anthers of the same flower and, as the style grows, carried up for dispersal by pollinating insects.
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Derived Forms

  • ¾±²Ôˈ»å³Ü²õ¾±²¹±ô, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ¾±²Ô·»å³Üs¾±Â·²¹±ô adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of indusium1

1700–10; < New Latin; Latin: kind of tunic, perhaps < Greek é²Ô»å²â²õ ( is ) dressing, dress ( ±ð²Ô»åý ( ein ) to put on + -sis -sis ) + Latin -ium, for Greek -ion noun suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of indusium1

C18: New Latin, from Latin: tunic, from induere to put on
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Example Sentences

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Much like the last, but the rather larger fronds puberulent beneath with minute jointed hairs and stalked glands; indusium deeply cleft into narrow segments ending in jointed hairs.—Rocky places, Minn., southward and westward.

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Wheeler, however, compares with the “dorsal organ†the peculiar extra embryonic membrane or indusium which he has observed between serosa and amnion in the embryo of the grasshopper Xiphidium.

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In Maidenhair-Ferns a little lobe of the leaf is folded back over each fruit-dot, to serve as its shield or indusium.

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When the fruit is ripe, the indusium is something of a lilac colour, spotting the frond in double rows—as you see it there.

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Pinnules divided into minute, densely crowded segments, the herbaceous margin recurved and forming an almost continuous indusium.

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