Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of many specialized hollow chambers containing reproductive structures that appear as dark, dotlike bodies on the surface of receptacles in certain algae and fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
- noun In botany: Originally, as used by Linnæus, a follicle—that is, a fruit formed of a single carpel dehiscing by the ventral suture.
- noun In lower cryptogams, an organ or a cavity which incloses reproductive bodies, usually spores, with or without special spore-cases: applied without reference to the origin of the spores, whether sexual or asexual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
- noun A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.
- noun One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
cavity , especially in the body. - noun A cavity in some marine
algae that contains thereproductive organs.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The walls of the conceptacle (Fig. 26, _B_) are composed of closely interwoven filaments, from which grow inward numerous hairs, filling up the space within, and often extending out through the opening at the top.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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platycarpus_, they are both in the same conceptacle.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_E_, natural size. _v_, air bladders. _x_, conceptacle bearing branches.]
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_B_, section through a conceptacle containing oögonia (_og.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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