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ALL meanings of indusium

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  • noun indusium A thin membranous covering, especially a shield covering a sorus on a fern frond. 1
  • noun plural indusium Botany, Mycology. any of several structures having a netlike or skirtlike shape, as the membranous overgrowth covering the sori in ferns. 1
  • noun plural indusium Anatomy, Zoology. an enveloping layer or membrane. a thin layer of gray matter on the corpus callosum. 1
  • noun indusium a membranous outgrowth on the undersurface of fern leaves that covers and protects the developing sporangia 0
  • noun indusium an enveloping membrane, such as the amnion 0
  • noun indusium any covering membrane, as the amnion 0
  • noun indusium a case enclosing an insect larva or pupa 0
  • noun indusium a membranous outgrowth of the leaf epidermis in certain ferns, covering the sporangia 0
  • noun indusium the annulus of certain fungi 0
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