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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.

 

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