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noun

Ascidium n. (pl. ascidia)

(Bot.) A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

pl. (Zool.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

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Etymology of 'Ascidium'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... lobes is universally considered as a good and normal specific character. Nevertheless it has its manifest analogy in the realm of the anomalies. This is the pitcher or ascidium. On some trees it is of quite common occurrence, as on the lime-tree (Tilia parvifolia) and the magnolia (Magnolia obovata and its hybrids). It is probable that both these forms have varieties with, and others without, ascidia. Of the lime-tree, instances are ...

— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries