hand lens
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The rarest was the minuscule rinodina isidioides - its tiny structures, when seen through a hand lens, resemble its common name, skeletal fingers.
From BBC • May 18, 2025
“We needed to lay on our bellies with a hand lens to observe the plant,” Guilliams said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023
No hand lens is required to diagnose anthracnose, or the most common abiotic disorders.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021
Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2019
But when the flowers open, a hand lens reveals 3-5 tiny, membranous perianth-segments for each tiny flower, whitish in color, and more or less connected at their bases.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
