Crossword-Solution: INDUSIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indusium | n. | A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower. |
| Indusium | n. | The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet. |
| Indusium | n. | A peculiar covering found in certain fungi. |
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| membranous outgrowth on the undersurface of fern leaves that covers and protects the developing sporangia | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
ONMEOIT
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with INDUSIUM (5)
Bentham writes of this genus:--"The indusium is usually described as broadly two-lipped, without any distinct stigma.
This led Darwin to publish a short note in the same journal, in which he describes the penetration of pollen-tubes into the viscid surface on the outside of the indusium.
But some observations led me to suspect that nevertheless insect agency here comes into play; for I found by holding a camel-hair pencil parallel to the pistil, and moving it as if it were a bee going to suck the nectar, the straggling hairs of the brush opened the lip of the indusium, entered it, stirred up the pollen, and brought out some grains.
Further, I find that at an early stage, when the flower first opens, a boat-shaped stigma lies at the bottom of the indusium, and further that this stigma, after the flower has some time expanded, grows very rapidly, when the plant is kept hot, and pushes out of the indusium a mass of pollen; and at same time two horns project at the corners of the indusium.
Will you look to this? for if they be by the relative position of the parts (with indusium and stigma bent at right angles to style) [I am led to think] that an insect entering a flower could not fail to have [its] whole back (at the period when, as I have seen, a whole mass of pollen is pushed out) covered with pollen, which would almost certainly get rubbed on the two horns.