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Basigynium :: Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore..

Phylactocarp :: Phylactocarp (n.) A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecae.

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated..

Urn :: Urn (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca..

Theca :: Theca (n.) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.

Spermathecae :: Spermathecae (pl. ) of Spermathec.

Gonangium :: Gonangium (n.) See Gonotheca.

Glyptotheca :: Glyptotheca (n.) A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

Gnathotheca :: Gnathotheca (n.) The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.

Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome..

Apothecaries :: Apothecaries (pl. ) of Apothecar.

Endotheca :: Endotheca (n.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another..

Epitheca :: Epitheca (n.) A continuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals..

Thecata :: Thecata (n. pl.) Same as Thecophora.

Ovicapsule :: Ovicapsule (n.) Same as Ootheca.

Theca :: Theca (n.) A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord..

Druggist :: Druggist (n.) One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary..

Podothecae :: Podothecae (pl. ) of Podothec.

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight..

Angiosporous :: Angiosporous (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi..

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