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  • noun Plural of peridium.

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  • noun Plural form of peridium.

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  • _Bacterium_ of the Vibrionia, I regarded them as spermatia, having frequently seen others undistinguishable from them under circumstances inconsistent with the presence of _Confervæ_, as in the interior of the immature peridia and sporangia of Fungals.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Stat cafus renovare omnis, omnemque reverti Per Trqjam, et rurfus caput objedare peridia.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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