Definition of Appressorium

1. Noun. a bulbous formation produced by parasitic fungi that is well attached to the cuticle of the host and from where a peg-shaped hypha is formed that penetrates the cuticle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Appressorium

1. [n -RIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appressorium

apprentices
apprenticeship
apprenticeships
apprenticing
apprentisage
apprentise
appress
appressed
appressed-fibrillose
appressed-fibrillose-striate
appressed-silky
appressed-squamulose
appresses
appressoria
appressorial
appressorium (current term)
apprest
appretiate
appretiated
appretiates
appretiating
apprisal
apprisals
apprise
apprised
appriser
apprisers
apprises
apprising
apprizal

Literary usage of Appressorium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and Biological Control of Plant Pests by Jane P. Gates (1994)
"Temperature affected both formation of germ tubes and appres- soria, and the best temperature-nutrient interaction was found for appressorium formation at ..."

2. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"The small projections at the margin firmly attach the appressorium to the leaf by dissolving small ... From the center of the appressorium arises another ..."

3. Botanische Zeitung (1893)
"In solchen vermag das appressorium hinter seinem Ende dem Substrat parallel oder häufiger anfangs nach diesem hin und dann erst ausweichend, ..."

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