n. pl. in·du·si·a (-zē-ə, -zhē-ə) An enclosing membrane, as that covering the sorus of a fern. [Latin, tunic, perhaps alteration of Greek endusis, dress, from enduein, to sink into, put on : en-, in; see EN-2 + duein, to sink.] |
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