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XANTHIDIUM

\zanθˈɪdi͡əm], \zanθˈɪdi‍əm], \z_a_n_θ_ˈɪ_d_iə_m]\

Definitions of XANTHIDIUM

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language

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A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
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A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A name given to some of the minute organic bodies in the flint and chalk of England, supposed to be fossil infusoria.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

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