a. [f. next + -AL 1.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an antheridiun.

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1848.  Dana, Zooph., v. 92. The union of a final cellule, with some other which is antheridial in its nature.

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1875.  trans. Sachs’ Bot., 803. The antheridial branches of some Saprolegnieæ.

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