Definition of Ostiole. Meaning of Ostiole. Synonyms of Ostiole

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Definition of Ostiole

Ostiole
Ostiole Os"ti*ole, n. [L. ostiolum a little door, dim. of ostium a door: cf. F. ostiole.] (Bot.) (a) The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate. (b) Any small orifice.

Meaning of Ostiole from wikipedia

- An ostiole is a small hole or opening through which algae or fungi release their mature spores. The word is a diminutive of "ostium", "opening". The term...
- florets on its inner surface. It is closed off from most organisms by the ostiole, fringed by scale-like bracts. Syconia can be monoecious or functionally...
- through a small natural opening (the ostiole) and deposits her eggs in the cavity. Forcing her way through the ostiole, the mated mature female often loses...
- columns (instead of a single column) and has multiple ostioles instead of a single, apical ostiole. The fungus was originally described as a variety of...
- at the top of the puffball sloughs away, revealing a pre-formed hole (ostiole) in the endoperidium, through which the spores can escape. In young puffballs...
- Arthroderma. Perithecia are flask shaped structures opening by a pore or ostiole (short papilla opening by a circular pore) through which the ascospores...
- temperatures. When conditions improve, the amoeba can emerge through the pore or ostiole at the center of the cyst. N. fowleri has been observed to encyst at temperatures...
- surface without excrescence. The shape of the top of the perithecium called ostiole has a characteristic slitlike opening. They grow either on very top of...
- single-seeded (true) fruits line its interior surface. A small opening or ostiole, visible on the middle of the fruit, is a narrow p****age that allows the...
- They are surrounded by two crescent-shaped cells at right angles to the ostiole. The epidermis bears simple one- to three-celled warty hairs, and small...