indusium

indusium has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.
• n.. The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.
• n.. A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.
• n.. a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern