Word Meanings - ASCUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• MEMBRANOUS
  Membranaceous. Membranous croup , true croup. See Croup. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• FUNGILLIFORM
  Shaped like a small fungus.
• BLADDER
  A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. Any vesicle or
• BLADDERWORT
  A genus of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• INTERMEMBRANOUS
  Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.