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Definition of Ostioles
1. ostiole [n] - See also: ostiole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostioles
Literary usage of Ostioles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"being smaller and more or less purple in color, the slenderly cylindrical ostioles
elevated about. i mm. ..."
2. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"Var. c. leucostoma, Fr. ostioles white, the black papillae being deficient. Hab.
On trunks; sometimes on stones: frequent. 3. ..."
3. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1872)
"Nowhere else are vibrating or non-vibrating cilia or cilia-like bodies to be met
with than in the monad chambers. And since the efferent ostioles are ..."
4. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1882)
"... ostioles; but soon agglomerate and confluent into large, ... but the ostioles
of the present—of which my few foreign specimens scarcely afford a trace. ..."
5. A Synopsis of the Lichenes of New England, the Other Northern States, and by Edward Tuckerman (1848)
"... rugose and somewhat chinky ; on the under side fuscous-black; ostioles convex.
... dark- fulvous-fuscous becoming black ; ostioles scarcely prominent, ..."
6. Bulletin ... of the Geological and Natural History Survey by Chicago Academy of Sciences (1896)
"... closed, the numerous ostioles sunken and black. Spores generally in twos, ...
often crowded together; depressed ostioles indistinct, often blackening. ..."
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