| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. An alternative spelling for "Excipulum": The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.[Websters]. | |
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Date "EXCIPLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXCIPLE
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| Science | Of an apothecium, tissue or tissues characteristic of the margins adjacent to the hymenium and hypothecium. Proper exciple (excipulum proprium) - tissue at the margin of an apothecium adjacent to the hymenium and hypothecium and inside the thalline exciple when present, without photobiont cells. Thalline exciple (excipulum thallinum) - tissue at the margin of an apothecium external to proper exciple and having a structure similar to that of the vegetative thallus with photobiont cells included in it. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: EXCIPLE
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Thalline exciple | Science | See exciple. (references) | |
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