Meaning of aspis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers.
   historical
2. An asp or generic venomous snake
   archaic
3. A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain

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Examples

“"shield both large and tough" has never said that aspides are small and weak […]”

“Flesh dipped in the sea Ægeum will never be sweet; the herb Trigion being once bit with an aspis never groweth, and conscience once stained with innocent blood is always tied to a guilty remorse.”

“As might be expected, characters of the aspides themselves are not of much value in pollen identification, but they are easily recognized and many three-pored, aspidate grains are broadly categorized as "betuloid" in studies of airborne pollen.”

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