Reference > American Heritage® > Dictionary
  cleistogamous clematis  
CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
cleistothecium
 
SYLLABICATION:cleis·to·the·ci·um
PRONUNCIATION:  klst-ths-m
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. cleis·to·the·ci·a (-s-)
Botany A closed spherical ascocarp.
ETYMOLOGY:New Latin : Greek kleistos, closed (from kleiein, to close) + Greek thkion, small case, diminutive of thk, receptacle; see dh- in Appendix I.
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  cleistogamous clematis  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com