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Definition of Pyxidia
1. pyxidium [n] - See also: pyxidium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyxidia
Literary usage of Pyxidia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"... proper germ or seed-lobes; they are plants with seed-vessels or pyxidia, upon
an open-leaved stalk. CLASS III. Trach ea-plan ts—Ferns. 1562. ..."
2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"pyxidia," with the ancients, were little boxes manufactured from it, the beauty
of which is acknowledged in the name still used in the Catholic Church for ..."
3. Geschichte und Litteratur der Lichenologie von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum by August von Krempelhuber (1869)
"... and principally about the center ; these are very various in their figure,
sometimes prominent, like the tubercles of the pyxidia, sometimes flat, ..."
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