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Definition of Desmids
1. desmid [n] - See also: desmid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desmids
Literary usage of Desmids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"It has recently been shown that the cell-wall of most of the desmids is ...
Other desmids may also be compared, eg Micrasterias, which is to be found in ..."
2. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"The desmids are transferred to a fresh dish of clean water by again using the
... If the desmids are to be stained, the sam° ™ethod may be used for washing ..."
3. Aquatic Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1918)
"The desmids are usually found in the freshest and sweetest water. In salt or
brackish marshes, where Diatoms flourish as well as in a mill-pond, ..."
4. Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1887)
"desmids, DIATOMS, AND FRESH-WATER ALG^E. THE desmids and diatoms arc two closely
related groups of minute aquatic plants which the beginner will at first ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"desmids. group uf fresh-water alg;v, chiefly unicellular, remarkable for the
symmetry of form and beauty of the cell contents. ..."
6. Ponds and ditches by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1880)
"CHAPTER V. desmids. NAMES are meaningless sounds until we are able to ... This is
especially the case with desmids, since there is nothing whatever in the ..."
7. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1875)
"The effect is so admirable upon many objects, such as scales of insects, certain
micro-fungi, minute algae, desmids, diatoms, &c., that everyone who has ..."
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