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a thickening or swelling around septa in certain thick-walled spores in Rinodina.
Ãâó: www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/webpubl/lichglos.htm
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A smooth rounded ridge or protuberance.
Ãâó: www.modernhumanorigins.com/t.html
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A central thickened portion of a pit membrane in a bordered pit of gymnosperms.
Ãâó: www.botanyvt.com/pages/dictionary.shtml
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^ a bed ; originally made of straw (Plin. HN viii. 48. s. 73), hay, leaves, woolly plants (Mart. xiv?160, 162), sea-weed (de mol-tibtts ulvis, Ovid. Met. viii. 656), also stuffed with wool, and afterwards with feathers (xi. 611), or swans-down (Mart. xiv. 161), so as to be as much raised and as soft as possible. (Virg. Aen. vi. 603; Ovid. Amor. ii. 4. 14.) It was sometimes covered with the hide of a quadruped (Virg. A en. viii. ...
Ãâó: www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/1147.html
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An outgrowth on bone. It usually develops on the roof of the mouth or around the premolar area on the lower jaw.
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