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Webster 1913 Edition

Paraphysis

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Pa-raph′y-sis

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Noun.

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pl.

Paraphyses

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[NL., fr. Gr.

παρά

beside + [GREEK] growth.]

(Bot.)

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.