Word Meanings - MICROSPORANGIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONCEPTACLE
  1. That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. Woodward. A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles. One of the cases containing
• MACROSPORANGIUM
  A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• SPORANGIUM
  A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• OOSPORANGIUM; OOESPORANGIUM
  An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• DIMINUTE
  Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.
• ZOOSPORANGIUM; ZOOESPORANGIUM
  A spore, or conceptacle containing zoöspores.
• DIMINUTELY
  Diminutively.
• MICROSPORANGIUM
  A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.