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INDUSIUM (indusia)
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Irregular inflected form: indusia
Dictionary entry overview: What does indusium mean?
• INDUSIUM (noun)
The noun INDUSIUM has 1 sense:
1. a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern
Familiarity information: INDUSIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("indusium" is a kind of...):
cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)
Holonyms ("indusium" is a part of...):
sorus (cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond)
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