Word Meanings - MICROSPORANGIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.
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- CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - CONCEPTACLE
1. That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. Woodward. A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles. One of the cases containing - MACROSPORANGIUM
A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns. - CONTAINANT
A container. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - MINUTE
1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as, - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - MINUTEMAN
A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution. - SPORANGIUM
A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc. - MINUTE-JACK
1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak. - MINUTENESS
The quality of being minute. - MINUTELY
In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely. - CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores - OOSPORANGIUM; OOESPORANGIUM
An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores. - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used. - DIMINUTE
Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor. - ZOOSPORANGIUM; ZOOESPORANGIUM
A spore, or conceptacle containing zoöspores. - DIMINUTELY
Diminutively. - MICROSPORANGIUM
A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.