Frustule

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The hard, siliceous bivalve shell of a diatom.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The siliceous shell of a diatom.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small fragment.
  • n. The silicious shell of a diatom; a testule.
    • Word Usage
    "Electrodes were inserted through the frustule into the cytoplasmic rich nuclear region of the cell (photomicrograph inset, scale bar 20 µm)."
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