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Applied to the arrangement of spores in a tetrasporangium resulting from a transverse division of the initial (tetrasporocyte), followed by a division of each of the products in plane or planes at right angles to the first division.
Ãâó: seaweed.ucg.ie/glossary/glossary.html
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| crutch |
Just as in waking life, the dream crutch represents support and assistance. It may be an emotional crutch, a spiritual one or even a psychological prop used to improperly inflate the ego or, to artificially assist one in their views.
Ãâó: www.katiestanley.com/resources/dd/c.htm
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| crust |
the outermost layer of the earth. It includes the oceanic crust (about 5-10 miles thick) and the continental crust (50-75 miles thick). The bottom of the crust is the Mohorovicic Discontinuity ("Moho").
Ãâó: www.tc.umn.edu/~smith213/Glossary%20A%20F.htm
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| crucible |
A ceramic or graphite container in which metal is melted. Cuttlebone. The chalky internal shell of a cuttlefish. Cuttlebone is used as a mold material for metal castings. The resulting casting has a wavy, striated surface. Powdered cuttlebone is used as a polishing compound..
Ãâó: faculty.uwstout.edu/hunts/art415002/glossary.shtml
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| crust |
the thin, outermost, solid layer of the Earth. It varies in thickness from 5 km beneath the oceans (oceanic crust) to 60 km beneath mountain chains (Continental crust). It is broken into a number of plates.
Ãâó: www.sedgwickmuseum.org/education/glossary.html
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