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Definition of Hesperidium
1. n. A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
Definition of Hesperidium
1. Noun. Any of several kinds of berries having pulpy interiors, and leathery skins containing aromatic oils. Includes citrus fruit such as the lemon and lime. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hesperidium
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Medical Definition of Hesperidium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hesperidium
Literary usage of Hesperidium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"hesperidium. Tig. 156. The Pome (Fig. 156) is an inferior fleshy fruit, of which
the epicarp, mesocarp, and fleshy calyx form the greater part, ..."
2. Dictionary of Botanical Equivalents, French-English, German-English by Ernst Artschwager, Edwina Maria Smiley (1921)
"... hesperidium orientation movement change of position birthwort, Aristolochia
Clematis Aristolochiaceae palet palisade gland palisade tissue group of ..."
3. Civic and Economic Biology by William Henry Atwood (1922)
"The hesperidium is a thick-walled, many-carpelled ovary. ... Both the pepo and
hesperidium are special modifications of the berry. ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"hesperidium, one of those fruits which, ... Of this nature is the fruit of the
orange, hich is the type of the hesperidium. HESSE, an extensive country of ..."
5. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"The fleshy, indehiscent. superior fruit of citrus, as lemon and orange, is known
as a hesperidium. The pericarp is more or less coriaceous, ..."
6. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"The hesperidium (hesperidium) is a plurilocular berry, with an aromatic glandular
epicarp, a dry and spongy ..."
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