Definition of Endothecium

1. n. The inner lining of an anther cell.

Definition of Endothecium

1. Noun. (biology) The tissue found in the walls of anthers, and in moss capsules ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Endothecium

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Medical Definition of Endothecium

1. The inner lining of an another cell. Origin: NL. See Endotheca. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endothecium

endosurgery
endosymbiont
endosymbiont hypothesis
endosymbionts
endosymbioses
endosymbiosis
endosymbiosis theory
endosymbiotic
endosymbiotic bacteria
endosymbiotic infection
endosymbiotic theory
endotendineum
endoteric bacterium
endotheca
endothecia
endothecium (current term)
endothelia
endothelial
endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule
endothelial cell
endothelial cyst
endothelial dystrophy of cornea
endothelial growth factors
endothelial leukocyte
endothelial myeloma
endothelial relaxing factor
endothelialisation
endothelialization
endothelially
endothelin

Literary usage of Endothecium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"It is important, from a theoretical point of view, to note that the endothecium thus established, though less definite in the lowest of the ..."

2. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"In the endothecium a series of walls is next formed, almost exactly repeating the ... The account of the development of the endothecium here given differs ..."

3. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"Deep columnar cellules, with parallel fibres, from the endothecium of Colla ... Flat oval cellules, with marginal incisions, in the endothecium of Phlomis ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"The central cells of the theca are called the endothecium, and the peripheral cells, the perithecium The endothecium develops an outside layer of «^rells by ..."

5. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1896)
"The central cells of the theca are called the endothecium, and the peripheral cells, the perithecium The endothecium develops an outside layer of cells by ..."

6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"older embryo; thr endothecium is shaded ; the foot, F, ... 122, i), and thus we have four inner cells which may be called the endothecium, and a number of ..."

7. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"Deep columnar cellules, with parallel fibres, from the endothecium of ('alia ... Arched fibres, connected by a membrane, in the endothecium of Nym- ..."

8. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... the sporogenous cells being scattered throughout the endothecium. ... is a layer of cells : it is generally the external layer of the endothecium, ..."

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