amniosn.
1. Physiol. = amnion n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > membranes, etc., of embryo or fetus > [noun] > membranes enclosing
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1657 Phys. Dict. Amnios, the inner skin that compasseth the child round in the womb.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 374 The upper part of the involving Amnios.
1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 193 The two membranes..the chorion and amnios.
1828 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xliv. 236 Regarded as fœtuses in their amnios rather than eggs.
1845 E. H. Noel tr. J. P. F. Richter Flower Pieces II. ix. 37 A little hidden creature, which has past from the fœtus-slumber into the sleep of death, out of the amnios-skin of this world into the shroud, the amnios-skin of the next.
2. Bot. ‘The fluid that is produced within the sac which receives the embryo-rudiment and engenders it.’ Treasury Bot. 1866.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > embryo or radicle > fluid surrounding embryo
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1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. II. 293 The amnios had just made its appearance in the upper region of the chorion.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. 33 The amnios always surrounds the embryo in an early state.
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