Indusium Definition

Indusium Sentence Examples

• A woollen undergarment (subucula) was often worn by men; the women's under-tunic was of linen (indusium).

• Ovular characters determine the grouping in the Dicotyledons, van Tieghem supporting the view that the integument, the outer if there be two, is the lamina of a leaf of which the funicle is the petiole, whilst the nucellus is an outgrowth of this leaf, and the inner integument, if present, an indusium.

• Even if we admit van Tieghem's interpretation of the integuments to be correct, the diagnostic mark of his unitegminous and bitegminous groups is simply that of the absence or presence of an indusium, not a character of great value elsewhere, and, as we know, the number of the ovular coats is inconstant within the same family.

• The sorus is frequently protected by an outgrowth from the surface or margin of the leaf called the indusium.

• The elongated receptacle of the marginal sori is surrounded by a basal cup-shaped indusium.