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Asci [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ascian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A person, who, at certain times of the year, has no shadow at noon. Such are the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, at times, a vertical sun.

Ascian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Ascii.

Ascians [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

Ascidia [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Ascidium

Ascidian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

Ascidiarium [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.

Ascidiform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shaped like an ascidian.

Ascidioidea [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

Ascidiozooid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

Ascidium [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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).

2. 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.

Ascigerous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having asci.

Ascii [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ascians

Ascitans [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. They introduced into their assemblies, certain bacchanals, who danced around a bag or skin distended with air, in allusion to the bottles filled with new wine. Math. 9.

Ascites [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A dropsy or tense elastic swelling of the belly, with fluctuation, from a collection of water.

Ascites [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum.

Ascitic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

ASCIT'IC

Ascitic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Belonging to an ascites; dropsical; hydropical.

Ascitic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ascitical

Ascitical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.

Ascititious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Additional; added; supplemental; not inherent or original.

2. Homer has been reckoned on ascititious name.

Ascititious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.