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CIDE DICTIONARY

hypnocyst

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypnocystn. [Gr. sleep + E. cyst.].
     A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.  [1913 Webster]

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