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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
solvens,-entis (part.B): unbinding; setting free, separating; opening; dissolving; breaking up [> L. solvo, solvere, solvi, solutum: to loosen: to untie, unbind, free, release; to release (from fetters, etc.), unyoke; to open; to release a thing from what holds it together; to dissolve, break up; to break up, weaken, to bring to an end]; cf. fatiscens,-entis (part.B), q.v., disintegrating;

- [algae] cellulae plerumque quasi vacuae et hyalinae, rarius coloratae (Laurenciae quaedam), aut amylaceis (?) granulis. facile sese solventibus (Gracilaria, Sphaerococcus) repletae (Agardh), cells commonly almost empty and hyaline, more rarely colored (certain Laurenciae), or filled with (perhaps) amylaceous granules, easily breaking up from each other (Gracilaria, Sphaerococcus).

 

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