Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the narrow furrowed apothecium of some lichens, as in the genus

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

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  • noun botany A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle; the fruit of certain lichens.

Etymologies

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Diminutive of Latin lira a furrow.

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