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Definition of Testae

Testae
Test Test, Testa Tes"ta, n.; pl. E. Tests, L. Test[ae]. [L. testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of earthenware, a shell. See Test a cupel.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. Note: The test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate, and is called the shell. 2. (Bot.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

Meaning of Testae from wikipedia

- Alvania testae is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. The length of the s**** varies between...
- juxtaposed Cylindrical/prismatic seeds (x10 approx) showing deeply fissured testae Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amsonia tabernaemontana. Wikispecies...
- Monte dei Cocci, is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (Italian: cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all...
- structures, but are fused with the fruit wall to form a pericarp.) The testae of both monocots and dicots are often marked with patterns and textured...
- (water, micro- and macronutrients, and sucrose). Most have seeds without testae (seed coats), which is unusual for flowering plants. The APG IV system of...
- fruits and seeds and their stomach acids soften and begin to break down testae, rendering them more permeable to water. After the seeds have been expelled...
- †Myliobatis striatus Buckland, 1837 †Myliobatis strobeli Issel, 1877 †Myliobatis testae Philippi, 1846 †Myliobatis tewarii Mishra, 1980 †Myliobatis toliapicus Ag****iz...
- having a separate stigma, one to two ovules per carpel, and seeds with testae (coats) made up of several cell layers. Didymeles, the sole genus in the...
- relief formed in ancient times by the ac****ulation of debris and shards (testae in Latin) from the nearby Emporium; it was established by resolution of...
- Buccinum acute-costatum Philippi, 1844 (incorrect original spelling) Buccinum testae Aradas, 1847 Columbella haliaeeti Jeffreys, 1867 Columbella haliaeeti var...